At 5:37 PM -0600 7/4/2009, Stephen Conrad wrote: >B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 > >I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit >Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is >down to 40.8 MB)
Perhaps pages you visited were quite complex, causing the need for virtual memory to expand suddenly. Take a look with this command, issued in Terminal: ls -al /var/vm >Earlier I ran DiskUtility but it stopped and after 30 minutes of it >not advancing (it froze the machine so a reboot was necessary). I >rebooted the machine Boot into safe mode (shift key held down) then run a Verify Disk pass with Disk Utiliity again. If it still cannot complete then you may have a hardware problem. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
