Re: Server Startup Disk Full

Subject: Re: Server Startup Disk Full

From: Marcus Horn <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:38:12 +0100

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Well, I never trust Finder when it comes to reporting folder sizes. The reason is that Finder will show you the folder sizes from your account´s view, which means you can´t inspect the entire drive since you most likely don´t have the permissions to do that. Instead I always use command line utilities run as root using sudo. If you are uncomfortable using cli I suggest finding any Un*x book, preferably one covering Mac OS X, and reading up on it...

What does the du command ( sudo du -xhd1 / ) in Termial report? This way you get one line for each top folder on your boot disk with the total file size in that folder including any subfolders. Then you can continue from there. But be patient, the command won´t display any output until it has traversed a complete subfolder structure...

/Marcus

8 dec 2005 kl. 06.28 skrev Mel Shear:

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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