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

[dr. m.c. schraefel]

Ok this is really nasty:
doing nothing seemingly and i'm getting low disk errors - disk neraly full

it's gone from 6gigs to 1 to in three minutes down to 992.2 mb

is anyone else seeing space taken like this over the course of a few hours??

just to reality check...

thanks

mc


On 18 Dec 2011, at 17:45, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:

> 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
> 
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> 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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