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

[dr. m.c. schraefel]

On the quest for space hogs, also found that mobile sync (in library/application support/mobile sync) iOS device backups were getting fiercly large. Doing a restore will also replicate a backup - one of mine is nine gigs 

indeed, doing a restore burned up the remainder of space on the harddrive giving a "cannot write back up to this computer" or similar.  error

- i think a lot of that is from the library of pdf's in goodreader - but i'd love a way to find out what exactly is in the backup files 

so that's another culprit.

will look at running fewer aps and tabs when putting hte mac to sleep to see if that makes a dif.

of course a 500+gig drive would be nice too. 

mc


On 18 Dec 2011, at 14:49, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> 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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