I am looking for some tool that will dump total disk I/O by a single process after it ends. So far my finding is :- iotop= It shows i/o per process in real time but does not give total after proc...

I need to determine the available space on the drive where my database lives. I know about the xp_fixeddrives procedure but how do I get the info for the specific drive where my database resides?

I know in linux it is as simple as /dev/sda but in Windows how do you open a disk and start reading data at the low level? In python I've tried: f = open("K:", "r") and I get this error: Trace...

My goal: Display a dialog box prompting the user to save a file being downloaded from aws. My problem: I am currently using awssum-amazon-s3 to create a download stream. However I've only manage...

I want to set up a headless Linux (Debian Wheezy) PC with whole disk encryption, with the ability to unlock the disk either with a USB drive, or by entering a passphrase by keyboard. My start...

When the policy for a disk in Windows XP and Vista is set to enable write caching on the hard disk, is there a way to flush a file that has just been written, and ensure that it has been committed ...

IDE,SCSI,SSD,SATA or all of those.

I've connected to amazon Ec2 instance through putty. How can I check the remaining space in instance?

I'm using the DriveInfo class in my C# project to retrieve the available bytes on given drives. How to I correctly convert this number into Mega- or Gigabytes? Dividing by 1024 will not do the job ...

I have VS 2013 and Microsoft Windows 8.1 The issue appeared at the ending of last week. Without any updating or important changing, when I do somethings in VS, disk usage reaches 100%. For example,...

I bought a NAS box which has a cut down version of debian on it. It ran out of space the other day and I did not realise. I am basically wanting to write a bash script that will alert me whenever ...

So I have a VPS and it has whm / cpanel installed. For some reason its giving an error when ever I login to cpanel or visit a site on my server which says the disk space is full. When i check the ...

I have a large database on a Win10 machine, mysqld.exe does a lot of disk I/O, 100%, for hours and hours 100MB/s consistently - mostly writes - persists after numerous reboots. How can I find out w...

I was reading Hadoop: The Definitive Guide and the following paragraph came up. A disk has a block size, which is the minimum amount of data that it can read or write. Filesystems for a single ...

Before LBA you simply had the physical mapping of a disk, which on originally on an old a IBM-PC compatible machine would look something like this the following: Cylinder Number : (10-bits) 0-1...

Here's what I have so far: import os.path as op for d in map(chr, range(98, 123)): #drives b-z if not op.isdir(d + ':/'): continue The problem is that it pops up a "No Disk" error box in Window...

Is it possible to read a disk directly with .NET? By directly, I mean via the device bypassing the file system. I think I would go about this by opening the device some way "\Device\Ide\IdeDev...

I have received perfmon counters from customer site. We noticed unusual values in \\COMPUTERNAME\Process(PROCESS_NAME)\**IO Other Operations/sec**. The best explanation for the counter I came up w...

My app is completely written in java (we moved to java11 from java8) and was running fine under High Sierra: new RandomAccessFile(file_on_network_volume, "rws") gained access and executi...

I've looked at java.nio.file.attribute.Attributes and java.nio.file.FileStore, but couldn't find a way to discover the block-size of a disk-file.

Can anyone please tell me the difference between internal and external fragmentation while allocation of disk space for files?

For years I've been using the drive serial number to map virtualized guest disks to the hyper-visor disk. VMWare ESXi for instance will set the disk serial number to the UUID of the disk - allows f...

This error arrived all out of a sudden. ErrorException in D:\xampp\htdocs\pckg\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem.php line 81: file_put_contents(): Only 0 of 3520 bytes ...

I need to access Windows MFT(Master File Table) using C# in my .net application. I have googled about this and couldn't find any good results. I have been searching for the information from the pas...

What is the source of this error and how could it be fixed? 2015-11-29 19:40:04,670 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode: Initialization failed for Block pool <registering> ...