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| From | TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Something is guzzling disk space |
| Date | 28 Aug 2025 19:10:58 GMT |
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On 28 Aug 2025 at 9:44:49 am BST, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote: > I've always been a bit tight on storage on my MacBook, at 500GB. > > Lately though something has guzzled an extra ~40GB, and it's hard to know > what. > > OmniDiskSweeper, which has always been useful, isn't able to peer into /var, > and I suspect it's there (36 GB for Multipasss!), or in logs somewhere, that > the storage is being consumed. > > A restart can claw back a few GB, but they disappear again soon. > > It's a bit rubbish to have to go on a file hunt in 2025, but what do you > recommend? GrandPerspective is still going, and works fine for me. https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ -- TimH pull tooth to reply by email
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Something is guzzling disk space D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-08-28 08:44 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space David Kennedy <davidkennedygm@gmail.com> - 2025-08-28 10:21 +0100
Re: Something is guzzling disk space TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-08-28 19:10 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space Martin-S <invalid@nomail.com> - 2025-08-29 15:41 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-08-29 22:11 +0200
Re: Something is guzzling disk space RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-08-30 05:44 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-09-01 14:07 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-09-01 15:19 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2025-09-02 07:01 -0400
Re: Something is guzzling disk space Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-09-02 14:05 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-09-02 10:33 +0000
Re: Something is guzzling disk space Steve Hodgson <hamrun@gmail.com> - 2025-09-03 08:56 +0000
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