sofarsogood
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My son's macbook has OSX 10.4.7, 60gb disk. He has had it for only a few months, and there is lots of missing space on the disk. The free space has dropped steadily from about 45GB to about 17GB, where it is now.
I am a unix guy, so I used find to look for large logfiles, and there were none. df reports 73% used, but when I use du to check directory sizes they only add up to 17G.
After searching through the forum I downloaded WhatSize and ran it. It confirmed just what I found, that the file system has 40G used, but the sum of all the directories is only 16G.
One other thing I noticed. When finder is displayed and I click back and forth between directories the free space counter goes down - for instance, if I go back and forth between applications and applications/utilities 3 or 4 times the free disk space drops .01 GB. This is repeatable.
Does this sound normal? I can't account for the 40+GB missing. My vm files are normal (64MB each). Missing space seems to be growing steadily. Does this sound normal?
I am a unix guy, so I used find to look for large logfiles, and there were none. df reports 73% used, but when I use du to check directory sizes they only add up to 17G.
After searching through the forum I downloaded WhatSize and ran it. It confirmed just what I found, that the file system has 40G used, but the sum of all the directories is only 16G.
One other thing I noticed. When finder is displayed and I click back and forth between directories the free space counter goes down - for instance, if I go back and forth between applications and applications/utilities 3 or 4 times the free disk space drops .01 GB. This is repeatable.
Does this sound normal? I can't account for the 40+GB missing. My vm files are normal (64MB each). Missing space seems to be growing steadily. Does this sound normal?
