I have a Compaq Presario SR5152NX Desktop PC. I use windows 7. but when i bought the computer it had vista (i updated to windows 7 about 2 years back). Anyways recently i started to get a popup at the bottom right saying that the recovery disk is full and click to delete files. when i clicked i find that the recycling bin is empty and i cant delete anything. i deleted all my previous backups and its still full and it stops me from making a new backup because there's not enough space.I see 'other files' from the manage windows backup diskspace menu which is taking majority of the space. but when i acutally go to my recovery disk i dont see any folder as such. I dont save anything other than backups on my recovery drive. from reading other forum posts i found out how to show hidden files. but im not sure what files i should avoid deleting and what files i can delete.
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Hi, my local disk drive D came with about 500 GB in space along with my local disk drive C which came with about 300 GB. I only download and store programs in my C drive. Yet for some reason when I checked, my D drive had 400 GB taken up in space. I believe that I accidentally let one of the Samsung Recovery Programs run and I saved it into my D Drive. In order to recover the lost 400 GB, is it possible to delete all the files in my D Drive? Also I did not complete the recovery step for my laptop. Any response would be appreciated.
Thank you.
These are the files in my D drive. http://i43.tinypic.com/2nbufco.png
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I have already said i used to have windows vista i said that because i think some of the files in this recovery folder have to do with vista. when i went into some of the folders i saw folders/files with the name vista. so i would like to know which files i should delete and which files i should avoid. also i have no intention to go back to vista. All i want to do is to be able to backup my computer and in case of a problem to restore it to a previous date on windows 7
Thanks so much for all your help.
@floyd617 Welcome to HTG.
The recovery partition in your computer has system files which are required to restore your computer to factory condition. This partition is not for storing backups. Since you had upgraded to Windows 7, there is no point keeping the contents of the system files(Vista) in it. So, you may remove it as explained here or you may go to Disk Management and right click on recovery partition and format it to remove its contents. After formatting the partition you may use it for backup.
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So your saying I can delete the recovery drive's contents and then backup my computer on that drive? And still backup in that drive and in case of an emergency I can still restore to an earlier point in time? how do I delete the contents of the recovery partition? when I open disk management and right click I don't get the option to remove contents. but I saw a forum on this site that you right-click then click 'change drive letter and paths..' and then delete. but when I do that i don't see the recovery partition anymore in start-computer. so i added the (D:) again. can i just enable to see hidden files and then go into start-computer-recovery (D:) and delete everything except for the icon where it says my computer name and shows a symbol of a hard drive? Thanks again for your help
I assume you installed Win7 with an installation disk - so there is no win7 recovery partition and you do not need one because you have the disk. What you are looking at is probably the old Vista recovery partition. I would just right click on it in My Computer and format it. Then you can use that partition for whatever you like.
okay thanks guys. what i did was i deleted everything in the recovery folder and then i increased the size of my recovery drive my shrinking the volume of my win7 drive and now i store all the items i need on the recovery drive and made shortcuts to it on win7. so if something goes wrong i will still have my stuff. THANKS SOOOOOOO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP, i really appreciate it :)
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On a virtualized server running Ubuntu 10.04, df reports the following:
This is puzzling me for two reasons: 1.) df says that /dev/sda1, mounted at /, has a 7.4 gigabyte capacity, of which only 7.0 gigabytes are in use, yet it reports / being 100 percent full; and 2.) I can create files on / so it clearly does have space left.
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Possibly relevant is that the directory /www is a symbolic link to /home/www, which is on a different partition (/dev/sda3, mounted at /home).
Can anyone offer suggestions on what might be going on here? The server appears to be working without issue, but I want to make sure there's not a problem with the partition table, file systems or something else which might result in implosion (or explosion) later.
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It's possible that a process has opened a large file which has since been deleted. You'll have to kill that process to free up the space. You may be able to identify the process by using lsof. On Linux deleted yet open files are known to lsof and marked as (deleted) in lsof's output.
You can check this with
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5% (by default) of the filesystem is reserved for cases where the filesystem fills up to prevent serious problems. Your filesystem is full. Nothing catastrophic is happening because of the 5% buffer -- root is permitted to use that safety buffer and, in your setup, non-root users have no reason to write into that filesystem.
If you have daemons that run as a non-root user but that need to manage files in that filesystem, things will break. One common such daemon is David SchwartzDavid Schwartz
named . Another is ntpd .
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You may be out of inodes. Check inode usage with this command:
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Most Linux filesystems reserve 5% space for use only the root user.
You can see this with e.g
You can change the reserved amount using :
In most cases the server will appear to continue working fine - assuming all processes are being run as 'root'.
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I had this problem and was baffled by the fact deleting various large files did not improve the situation (didn't know about the 5% buffer) anyway following some clues here
From root walked down the largest directories revealed by repetitively doing:-
until I came a directory for webserver log files which had some absolutely massive logs
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In addition to already suggested causes, in some cases it could be also following:
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df -h is rounding the values. Even the percentages are rounded. Omit the -h and you see finer grained differences.
Oh. And ext3 and derivates reserve a percentage (default 5%) for the file-system for exactly this problematic constellation. If your root filesystem would be really full (0 byte remaining) you can't boot the system. So the reserved portion prevents this.
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Download test drive unlimited 2 pc. I did a big update of several libraries and there was a lot of unnecessary libraries and temporal files so I free space in the '/' folder using:
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check the /lost+found, I had a system (centos 7) and some of file in the /lost+found ate up all the space
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If your partition is btrfs, there may be a subvolume taking space. A btrfs filesystem can have many subvolumes, only one of which is mounted. You can use
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