On 24/05/2005, at 16:52 , Severin Crisp wrote:
When I went to Tiger I did an Erase and Install and in the process
seemed to recover about 1GB of vanished disk space. Since then I
have kept a notional track of my usage and seem to have about 0.5GB
nibbled away somewhere. Clearing caches and so on has no effect.
"Where is my Disk Space" gives a full audit but no clues, it is
certainly not disappearing in large recognisable chunks. I am
tempted to SuperDuper the whole lot across to another disk then
from there erase and bring it all back again and see what I get but
apart from the time involved I always see such operations as
potentially risky. As I have only a 19GB boot disk which is about
half full the loss of 0.5Gb or more is not useful.
Any comments welcome
Severin Crisp
Not to forget that, depending on your RAM configuration, and machine
use, Mac OS X will use up to 1 GB, or more, in swap (look in <file:///
var/vm/> but don't try and delete anything!!!)
OmniDiskSweeper is a very very good tool for finding where all your
disk space has gone:
<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/>
-josh
