Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion server - something's chewing disk space
Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion server - something's chewing disk space
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion server - something's chewing disk space
- From: David Emery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:25:16 -0500
Local Backups appears to have been the problem. Using "WhatSize.app" (in Administrator mode, viewing the Server boot partition when booted from a different drive partition) I was able to locate a 50gb otherwise-hidden directory in /Volumes, which apparently was a Tme Machine Local Backup of a removable hard drive. I've been doing my periodic "copy stuff to an offsite drive" backups and probably deleted a bunch of stuff from that hard drive.
But what confuses me was that I could NOT see this entry by running "sudo ls -laFs /Volumes"
Anyway, disabling local backups and removing that directory has produced a newly stable Lion Server installation. At some point, I'll replace that 120gb drive with a 320gb laptop drive (or I'll pull the 500gb Momentus XT hybrid drive from the 1st generation MacBook Pro I'm not using any more - removing the hard drive from that machine is a real pain!...)
For now I'm leaving my external facing Mini on Snow Leopard server (it's running some custom web applications and we're not ready to roll that application to Lion Server and the new Java environment yet), and my primary laptop is still on Snow Leopard. As much as I want/need whole disk FileVault, I'm not comfortable enough with Lion to go 'final production', plus I have several applications (e.g. my printer driver!) that are PPC only with no obvious replacement.
dave
> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:44:03 +0000
> From: "Trouton, Rich R" <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion server - something's chewing disk space
> To: David Emery <email@hidden>
> Cc: "<email@hidden>" <email@hidden>
> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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> Dave,
>
> It might be that Time Machine is making local backups:
>
> http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/28/disable-time-machine-local-backups-in-mac-os-x-lion/
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
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