disk space

collocation in English

meaningsofdiskandspace

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disk
noun[C]
uk
/dɪsk/us
/dɪsk/
a flat, circular device that is used for ...
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space
noun
uk
/speɪs/us
/speɪs/
an empty area that is available to ...
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(Definition ofdiskandspacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisk space

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The file server has run out ofdiskspace.
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In addition, it may be necessary to delete intermediate files created by the whole procedure in order to save harddiskspace, since analysis files are usually large.
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Using this approach, a large number of utterances can be pronounced on the basis of a limited number of pre-recorded phrases, saving memory anddiskspaceand increasing flexibility.
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With de-duplication a disk appliance with 5 terabytes of rawdiskspaceand store as much as 30 terabytes of compressed and de-duplicated data.
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It is designed to work for slow computers with littlediskspace(e.g. on rescue disks).
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Storing small files on a filesystem with large clusters will therefore wastediskspace; such wasteddiskspaceis called slack space.
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This made for inefficient use ofdiskspaceif a large number of small files were to be stored.
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All files start as a contiguous group of disk pages, and grow by linking additional overflow pages from unuseddiskspace.
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Writable parts of the filesystem are stored in a separate state partition, which is automatically resized to fill all availablediskspaceupon reboots.
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Shake works by allocating space for the whole file as one operation, which will generally cause the allocator to find contiguousdiskspace.
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Hard links allow saving thediskspacebecause of placing the same file in several folders at once.
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The data can be recovered from accessiblediskspace, deleted (unallocated) space or from within operating system cache files.
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Polygon soup can help save memory, load/write time, anddiskspacefor large polygon meshes compared to the equivalent polygon mesh.
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It also manages and schedules the allocation of distributed resources such as processors, memory,diskspace, and software licenses.
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Its developers based on idea of a visual approach to monitoring and analyzing thediskspaceusage.
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This reduces the totaldiskspaceused by keeping only one common base image.
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This would however use unnecessarydiskspace, require more time and could result in quality loss due to compression.
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The actual amount ofdiskspaceconsumed by the file depends on the file system.
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