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Re: Something is guzzling disk space

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On 28 Aug 2025 at 09:44:49 BST, "D.M. Procida"
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> Lately though something has guzzled an extra ~40GB, and it's hard to know
> what.

If you have Time Machine running, you can clear out the current set of
local snapshots it makes. It'll give you a clearer idea of "real" data
usage on the drive.

Terminal: tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 9999999999999 4

Then I'd proceed with GrandPerspective (run via sudo for best results on
this sort of thing) and a reboot.

Doesn't always work; one of the more unpleasant iosifications of macOS
is the 'system data' ie who the fuck knows. I had to do a forced reboot
from a runaway app memory leak recently (Tahoe beta too, tbf) where free
space had gone from 100gig to 3gig. Reboot *should* fix that, didn't.
Actual data from `du` was in the 850gig range; `df` was 3gig though.
tmutil above didn't help. I shunted 100gig of stuff off the drive
manuall.

After logging an issue through Feedback Assistant the disk space
gradually recovered on its own and now I've 200gig space. Again, who the
fuck knows. Apple certainly haven't responded to the bug report.

    Cheers - Jaimie

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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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