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Where's my disk space?
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Hi all,
I have a 160GB HD (148GB useable), and I'm not really sure where all my space is.
My home folder is 32.92 GB. So 148 - 33 = 115GB. The leopard specs say at least 9GB should be available for install. So that puts the figure at about 105GB. However, I only have 85GB free on my disk. Where is the other 20GB being used up?
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MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D
320GB HDD
4GB RAM
256MB VRAM
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Use a utility like WhatSize to see what's using your HDD space.
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Immediately after a reboot, how much space do you have? Rebooting will clear out any caches and I think it removed the sleep image used for safe sleep (file the same size as your amount of RAM). I always use Disk Inventory X (see Versiontracker) to see where my hard disk space has gone.
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Still have 85G free after reboot
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MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D
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Originally Posted by mrurmil 
Still have 85G free after reboot
Run the utility I linked to.
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You might see if Spotlight went whacko and started indexing and reindexing and reindexing...I had that happen the other night. After killing off mds and/or mdsworker (that's the Spotlight indexer I think) in the Activity Monitor, I ran Onyx to reset the index. Suddenly, after the index was rebuilt, I had about 20 GB back.
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior
Run the utility I linked to.
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MacBook Pro 2.4GHz C2D
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Originally Posted by mrurmil
0 bytes /.Spotlight-V100
Need to run the app with root privileges to see "everything".
I'll bet the /.Spotlight-V100 folder is really much bigger than 0 bytes, and
I'll bet /private is bigger than 4.67 GB (or something is bigger than shown).
Or... need to measure /Volumes from within. Many size-measuring utilities
will skip over (subfolders of) /Volumes, so as to prevent going into mounted
volumes, network shares, etc.
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Maybe some things like Spotlight index are not shown, but it already pretty much sums up correctly:
148 - 33,7 - 14,1 - 4,89 - 4,66 - 4,07 - 0,997
= 85,583
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Maybe some things like Spotlight index are not shown, but it already pretty much sums up correctly:
148 - 33,7 - 14,1 - 4,89 - 4,66 - 4,07 - 0,997
= 85,583
And it's also plenty enough to satisfy the "at least 9GB should be available for install" part too.
So... this 'problem' was basically solved in post #1.  (idunno, guess i missed something. )
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