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Last night I got that annoying "Your Startup Disk is Almost Full" alert.
This puzzled me as I had previously freed up over 8 GB's only hours earlier. I deleted an expendable 100 MB file and nothing changed. My available disk space still read at Zero K available.
I searched the net and found this thread. http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-29799.html
And while the problem discussed therein is not identical, it did provide me with a few command line tips and a general area to begin my search. In the terminal i typed:
sudo du -hx -d 1 /
but instead of bloated swap files, I found my problem; a 33 GB log folder. More specifically, 1 33 GB log file within that directory: system.log.0
I waffled for a moment or 2, then zapped it.
rm system.log.0
All seemed well, after a reboot I suddenly had my hard disk space back.
Now fast forward to this evening. My system had been on all day sleeping as it usually does. Suddenly I notice the "Startup Disk is Almost Full" alert again. I went right to my terminal and typed :
cd /private/var/log
sudo du -s -h *
And a now I had another bloated log file : system.log
I planning on deleting this file, but I do not know if I am simply making more trouble for me down the road by deleting these files. Also, I need to know why this is happening in the first place.
it should be noted the following:
Powerbook 17 1.33G4 with half a gig of ram. Was just brought up to 10.3.8 from 10.3.7
This puzzled me as I had previously freed up over 8 GB's only hours earlier. I deleted an expendable 100 MB file and nothing changed. My available disk space still read at Zero K available.
I searched the net and found this thread. http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-29799.html
And while the problem discussed therein is not identical, it did provide me with a few command line tips and a general area to begin my search. In the terminal i typed:
sudo du -hx -d 1 /
but instead of bloated swap files, I found my problem; a 33 GB log folder. More specifically, 1 33 GB log file within that directory: system.log.0
I waffled for a moment or 2, then zapped it.
rm system.log.0
All seemed well, after a reboot I suddenly had my hard disk space back.
Now fast forward to this evening. My system had been on all day sleeping as it usually does. Suddenly I notice the "Startup Disk is Almost Full" alert again. I went right to my terminal and typed :
cd /private/var/log
sudo du -s -h *
And a now I had another bloated log file : system.log
I planning on deleting this file, but I do not know if I am simply making more trouble for me down the road by deleting these files. Also, I need to know why this is happening in the first place.
it should be noted the following:
Powerbook 17 1.33G4 with half a gig of ram. Was just brought up to 10.3.8 from 10.3.7