On 7/5/09, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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
>
Last login: Sun Jul 5 11:27:42 on ttyp2
Welcome to Darwin!
[Steve-Conrads-Computer:~] steveconrad% ls -al /var/vm
total 156256
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Jul 4 22:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 680 Jul 4 22:51 ..
drwx--x--x 8 root wheel 272 Apr 22 2007 app_profile
-rw------T 1 root wheel 80000000 Jul 4 22:49 swapfile0
[Steve-Conrads-Computer:~] steveconrad%
>>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.
>
I will do this when I reboot the machine
--
Steve Conrad
Henrietta, MO 64036
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to go forth and claim our place in outer space."
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