[Fwd: Help, HD too full]

Steve Petree

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May 9, 2003, 12:14:41 PM5/9/03

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Subject: Help, HD too full
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 07:58:44 -0700
From: Steve Petree <smpe...@netscape.net>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA
To: "Macintosh OS X User Communications"
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I have an iBook G3, 600Mhz, OSX.2.5, with a 20 GB HD, 640MB ram.
I just started using Disk Warrior.
Since then I've noticed my HD is way full, only a couple MB available.
My backup has over 7 GB available, ( this supposed to be a mirror of my
actual drive, and is a seperate HD, on firewire)
I only noticed recently, I started getting the rotating
beachball/lollipop whenever I launched more than one or two apps.
Symptom of a full drive.
I don't think it's my trash can, as I empty it when I shut down.
I can't account for the lost space on the HD, when I show info on the
various folders, they all look normal, as far as used space.

What is using my HD space, and how do I get rid of it?

Thank you for your attention
Steve Petree

Kevin McMurtrie

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May 9, 2003, 6:11:29 PM5/9/03

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In article <3EBBD3F1...@netscape.net>,
Steve Petree <smpe...@netscape.net> wrote:

Use the 'du' command in Terminal to show how many disk blocks are being
used. CUPS leaks files in OS X so I'll put that in an example. Start
off with summaries:

cd /
du -s *

617408 /Applications
515704 /Applications (Mac OS 9)
0 /Cleanup At Startup
8 /Desktop (Mac OS 9)
136 /Desktop DB
432 /Desktop DF
23184 /Desktop Folder
2108328 /Developer
752 /Documents
0 /File Transfer Folder
665424 /Library
2 /Network
0 /Network Trash Folder
0 /Shutdown Check
2706712 /System
946912 /System Folder
0 /Temporary Items
16 /TheVolumeSettingsFolder
0 /Trash
7665736 /Users
0 /Volumes
1 /automount
7848 /bin
0 /cores
3120 /dev
8 /etc
8 /mach
1384 /mach.sym
7304 /mach_kernel
546800 /private
3912 /sbin
8 /tmp
542424 /usr
8 /var

Dig down into suspiciously large directories and repeat.

cd /private
du -s *

0 Drivers
4680 etc
248 tmp
541880 var

cd var
du -s *

0 at
24 backups
0 cron
288 db
0 empty
3120 log
0 mail
8 msgs
24 named
0 netboot
304 root
120 run
0 rwho
6856 spool
4544 tmp
526560 vm
32 yp

Now you can turn off summaries:

du spool

0 spool/clientmqueue
6720 spool/cups/tmp
6856 spool/cups
0 spool/Faxes
0 spool/lock
0 spool/mqueue
6856 spool

Take a look at why there's so much temporary junk:

cd spool/cups/tmp
ls -l

total 6720
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 12 11:42 3e985e28b81f5
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 12 16:18 3e989eaba34d4
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 15 12:09 3e9c58daa8204
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 20 10:37 3ea2dae3cd24d
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 20 10:37 3ea2dae3cf194
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 21 20:53 3ea4bc9d703bd
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 21 20:53 3ea4bc9e5a1f6
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 21 21:06 3ea4bfc17b975
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 21 23:34 3ea4e28ebaf5f
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 21 23:34 3ea4e28ebb0ca
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 29 15:16 3eaef9dad713f
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 29 15:16 3eaef9dadec32
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 29 15:36 3eaefe760d963
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 Apr 29 16:06 3eaf057718bc2
-rw------- 1 root admin 227242 May 6 21:25 3eb88aa249757

Delete the old temporary junk:

rm *

etcetera...

Peter Ammon

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May 9, 2003, 6:46:36 PM5/9/03

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Steve Petree wrote:

Get OmniDiskSweeper
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/> . It will show
you where your disk space is going.

-Peter