Re: Server Startup Disk Full

• Subject: Re: Server Startup Disk Full
• From: "Josh Wisenbaker" <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 09:30:47 -0500 (EST)
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> 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?

The Finder can't show you where the space went. Use something like "sudo
du -sh /*" or Omni DiskSweeper to look for your missing space.

Josh
www.afp548.com

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