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Server Startup Disk Full

Title: Server Startup Disk Full
A client is running OS X Server 10.4.2 on a Tower G5/2.7 dual processor Mac. It has been running fine for several months then all of a sudden the server startup partition became full. I turned on the show folder size setting and on the startup partition it showed about 6GB used out of the total of 118GB on that partition..

Somehow 112GB are being used up by invisible files right? - WRONG!!!!!??

I did a search for invisible files and could find none that account for the missing 112GB. I tried deleting about 100MB of unused applications and in minutes the space freed up disappeared and the disk became full again.

I did the disk permission fix and disk repair from disk tools while booting from the startup CD and nothing seems to help

I am trying to avoid doing a clean reinstall since the problem may occur again. Does anyone know what is using up the free space on this unit and how can I isolate and fix the problem?

Thanks,

Mel Shear
Shear Systems 
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