As I say, I shut down the network and the disk space still went down, which rules out P2P.
#OMNIDISKSWEEPER SUDO MAC#
I’ve never heard of this before though.Ĭheck out Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder to see the virtual memory usage for each process running on your Mac
Therefore a restart was going to be pretty much the only remedy. Though it’s possible it was Virtual Memory going absolutely nuts. but it sounds like you know what you’re doing in Terminal, so you could probably do what I did, and just use OmniDiskSweeper to find the files/folders in question and use Terminal to delete. It’s shareware so you have to pay to get it to delete stuff for you. Though you could do the same thing in teminal I though this program was much faster at showing me EVERYTHING on my HDD, including invisible folders and the sizes of each. I discovered this using OmniDiskSweeper program. It also failed to move the files over to the external once they had completed downloading. I’ve had problems in the past with P2P programs that were meant to be downloading to an external HDD, but instead they downloaded to an invisible folder of the same name as my external HDD but on my internal drive. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.īoth comments and pings are currently closed.ģ3 Responses to “Mystery of the disappearing disk space”ĭidn’t duplicate everything and purge it? On Saturday, December 8th, 2007 at 10:25 am and is filed under Mac OS, Software.
#OMNIDISKSWEEPER SUDO MAC OS X#
What could have caused this weirdness? Some sort of virus? A dodgy hard drive? Some weird Mac OS X oddity? Answers on a postcard please – or, more conveniently, in the comments section below! It came back up with around 980MB free, and stayed stable. I obviously wasn’t going to find the problem, so I just rebooted the iMac to kill everything off. I used ‘lsof’ to see what files and folders were being written to. I shut down all running apps in the Dock, then did a ‘ps -aux’ and killed off all processes except those that looked like core Mac OS X services. Maybe it was some sort of virus, worm, or rootkit that was downloading from the net? I shut down the AirPort network on the iMac to stop all network activity. But a ‘ps -aux | grep rsync’ on both machines brought up nothing. I do a nightly rsync backup from my iMac to hers, and sometimes it’s still going during the day. So I shut down iTunes and did another ‘df -h’. I knew that iTunes was subscribed to quite a few podcasts and, indeed, it had been downloading a couple of episodes recently. It was dropping at a rate of 1-2MB/second. I cleared a few more big files from the drive, then did a ‘df -h’. Then, yesterday morning, it ran out of space again.
#OMNIDISKSWEEPER SUDO FREE#
The next day, I noticed that the free space had suddenly jumped up to 20GB again. I cleared out a few old video podcasts from iTunes to free up a couple of GB and thought nothing more of it. This was quite odd, as it had a good 20GB free last week. As in, ‘Zero bytes available’ in the Finder, with a warning dialog. A few days ago, my wife’s iMac started running out of disk space.
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