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96 questions linked to/from How disk space is used on Android device?
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Android System storage usage blew from 7GB to 40GB overnight,Magisk problems?
I have LineageOS 17.1 with Magisk on my phone and this night system storage usage blew from 7GB to 40 GB
dreamlte:/ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs ...
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How can I find out where all my storage space is gone?
I've seen lots of posts here and elsewhere, including YouTube videos, about how to free up space on your android device or find out where it's all gone, including multiple redmi-specific ones, but ...
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Why is my internal storage space constantly so low on my Samsung Galaxy A12 phone when I use an SD card?
My Galaxy A12 is always notifying me to delete unused files to avoid running slowly\apps not working correctly due to low internal storage space. I've moved any\every thing that's able to move to my ...
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Steps to investigate what is happening to system files
So, I recently got a notification that space was running out on my 128GB phone. Looking at the segmentation then, the system files was taking about 45 GB data while my other stuff was taking around ...
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No memory avaiable on my Galaxy S4
I don't understand why I can't take photo or video with my Samsung Galaxy S4. I have 32 GB of memory and I haven't a lot of photo or apps in my mobile phone. I tried to delete photo, video or apps ...
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Why "df" and "du" show different space usage on /storage/emulated/0?
My Moto X (first generation) has a 11.9GB of user storage, almost all of which is used. Here is the relevant line from df:
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/storage/emulated/...
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How to show all folder sizes of Android phone in Windows file explorer?
When I run space analysis it shows about 50GB of others, and I don't what is that exactly, so I wanted to manage the space on file explorer on windows 11, but the thing is it doesn't show the folder &...
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Android incorrect reporting of storage usage
I have a moto g 7 power running android 10. I am attempting to clear out some storage. In the storage portion of the settings app, it shows 4.6GB of audio, but when I go to delete those files, it ...
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How to clean up knox filesystem
My Samsung galaxy S9 is giving me notifications to say I am using over 90% of my internal storage. This confused me as the built in file manager (and a couple others I downloaded) showed closer to ...
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100% Flash memory used by system/proc folder - Oppo find X3 lite - colorOS 12
I'm currently facing this issue: after the ColorOS 12 update on my OPPO find X3 lite, my phone was showing the warning of flash memory full (128 GB). Even removing files, cache, apps and other stuff, ...
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ES File Explorer - Space not freed after deletion from Recycle Bin
Every few months, my internal storage begins to fill up.
I store everything I can to SD Card, but Android has a limited ability to do so. I'm running Oreo, unrooted.
The biggest dir by far is /...
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Droid Turbo 2 storage doesn't clear
We often get out of storage messages on our Motorola Droid Turbo 2 phone. We delete an App, and, say it's a 100 MB app, we only see about 10 MB free up. Likewise we've transferred and deleted ...
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Why isn't my internal storage usage going down after adopting an SD card?
I have an Honor 5X running LineageOS, and I'm trying to use an external SD card as adoptable storage. After migrating my data, my internal shared storage usage does not go down. Specifically, "Music &...
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Move App Data from SD Card to Internal Storage
TL;DR: Some apps have a little data on the SD and I want to move it to internal in case the apps actually need it. My intent is to use the SD for something else. However, I can't figure out how to ...
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Name and type of virus on Android which is attacking file system and storage drives
There's a virus on my Android phone which is attacking the file systems and storage drives attached to my device.
I need help identifying the virus, so that I may further my research and come up with ...
