Disk Space Check

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Harvey

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Hey guys,

This is a friends Mac I'm talking but it has a 30 GB disk, and there are only like 200 MB free left when checking INFO on the disk itself.

However when I check each folder under the disk individually... Music, Movies, Documents, Applications etc... It doesn't add up to anywhere near 30GB.

I dropped down to terminal to look around thinking maybe there was another user created that was using a lot of space... or something.. But I realized I don't know anything about checking disk space in Darwin :)

Could anyone give me any tips on how to hunt down what is taking up all the disk space?

I did try emptying the Trash already!

Any help appreciated!

Actually I just learned the 'df -H' command... Heh. But it tell sm ethat /dev/disk0s3 is at 99%... but it would be great if I could see the directory breakdown across the whole disk. To see what is taking up space where.

I just learned the 'du' command.

When dropping down to the /Users directory and doing 'du -s -h *'
It seems that only about 13 gigs are used across all those directories.

Where is this other 13 GB being eaten....

- Harvey
 
virtual memory plus other things. Make sure there are at *LEAST* 5-7 GB free after a restart. You can use OmniDiskSweeper to find out where the big files are hidden. But make sure you don't delete anything important. -> http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/7402
 
Hey thanks for the tips! This helped me get a look at what is where.

One question, how large should ones .Library directory typically be? It's looking at about 4 gig on this particular machine. Is that normal? Or could it be bloated? I'm not quite familiar with how things should look on OS X yet.

Thanks for any tips
 
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