[OSX-Users] Re: lion -or something - eating gigs?

[Hugh Glaser]

Interesting - maybe this is it.

I have
alias ll ls -lh

On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:38, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> Hi hugh
> 
> thanks for this
> 
> mine seems similar to yours:
> 
> hockeypuck:~ mc$ ls -al /private/var/vm 
> total 16777216
> drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel         374 16 Dec 16:54 .
> drwxr-xr-x  29 root  wheel         986 13 Aug 15:16 ..
> -rw------T   1 root  wheel  4294967296 16 Dec 09:35 sleepimage
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel    67108864 14 Dec 16:02 swapfile0
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel    67108864 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile1
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel   134217728 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile2
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel   268435456 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile3
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel   536870912 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile4
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile5
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile6
> -rw-------   1 root  wheel  1073741824 18 Dec 14:35 swapfile7
> 
> (do you have a switch to see the units of file space as G/M rather than bits?)
> 
> mc
> 
> On 17 Dec 2011, at 12:34, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> 
>> Rover:/private/var/vm] hg% ll
>> total 14680064
>> -rw------T  1 root  wheel   4.0G 16 Dec 13:10 sleepimage
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    64M 16 Dec 18:00 swapfile0
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel    64M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile1
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   128M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile2
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   256M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile3
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   512M 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile4
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile5
>> -rw-------  1 root  wheel   1.0G 17 Dec 12:01 swapfile6
> 
> 

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