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?
As pointed out the Finder is a lose, you need to use real tools here.
They should allow you to narrow it down for sure, but here's some
common places to check for "where did all the space go" are:
- Log files overflowing. See /var/log and /Libarary/Logs
- saved core images (if you enabled this it will fill up fast.(
- rogue mountpoints in places like /Volumes. What tends to happen is
you have some job, like a backup, that copies files to another
volume, that volume get's dismounted and now you end up copying all
the files to the mountpoint instead of the volumes.
HTH
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-dhan
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