I then went to MS own site and followed the instructions to disable it; et voila! You will need to use the cmd prompt and follow the instructions, but if you are not happy doing this yourself, get a knowledgeable friend to do it for you.
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Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 7 Search Community member. Daniel Ronthis. So, a couple of weeks ago my hard drive slowly started filling up.
It wasn't too bad at first, but then it started filling up very fast. I can't figure out what is going on, so can someone help me? I've tried the following things:.
That means something is taking up 20 GB of room. That's about it. Can someone help me? I'm not very good at doing computer things, so I would appreciate some feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Srimadhwa B.
Hi Daniel, Thank you for posting this question in Microsoft Community. Let us try these methods. Method 1. Method 2. Feel free to post your query here on Windows Forums, we would be happy to assist you. How satisfied are you with this reply? In reply to Srimadhwa B's post on May 10, Thanks for responding. I'll try Method 1. As for 2, I've already tried Disk Cleanup multiple times. It only clears about 20 MB. The strangest thing of all is that du shows no change. How do I track what eats the space?
Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Arry Arry 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. I prefer ncdu over plain du for finding large files directories.
It does scan the entire directory tree before it lets you do anything; you may want to pass it a specific path e. Several decent answers already on this site. Possible duplicate of How to understand what's taking up disk space? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Hauke Laging Hauke Laging This doesn't address my question. I cannot find the problem with du. Arry Indeed, I read too fast. Use something like lsof -s grep deleted sort -k 8 to see which processes are keeping deleted files open.
After that, if you find a process that is likely the culprit, we can see how to fix it. Good suggestion, but on my machine this command reports only 2 open deleted files with size of 2k, which is a far cry from 2. This was a great suggestion and it indeed helped me solve a problem similar to the parent question. I had a huge discrepancy between df and du commands. In my specific case, I have rotating logs and a service that forwards the logs logstash in this example.
The logstash service was keeping the rotated logs open, even when deleted. This was causing the discrepancy between du and df. Once the logstash service was restarted disk space showed up correctly. I had a process writing an append-only-file that grew indefinitely and eventually filled my disk. Then I decided to rm that file but the process didn't close its file descriptor, so it was somehow still being used. Restarting the process and limiting the AOF size solved my problem.
Worth a note that this requires root privileges. Also, I used sudo lsof -s grep deleted sort -hk7 to get a numerical sort. Without -h, sort does funny lexical things with numbers. This is amazing stuff. You can view even more on our page. Your Terminal is now at the top level of the hard disk. Type the following followed by return: du -h -d2 This command runs a du disk usage command with -h human readable output and goes down -d2 two folder levels down.
Each folder will also show its total size calculated at the bottom of each section of results. Real-Time Feedback When we solve a support ticket, clients are given the choice of leaving good or bad feedback along with an optional comment. He's friendly and he solved my issue so fast.
Thanks again Lochie for the excellent support!
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