[Ti] disappearing disk space (note)

[Renaud Dreyer]

Le mardi, 24 fév 2004, à 01:57 US/Pacific, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley a écrit 
:

>
> Note that my swapfiles are on another disk partition....
>
> Al 1.25/15.2" OS X 10.3.2
>
> It happened for the second time, last night: my main partition (boot 
> paertition) which has about 1.55Gb of free space, behaved as if there 
> was no space.  It even showed 0 bytes free.  I could not save my open 
> documents to this partition.  How did this free space suddenly 
> disappear?  And what should I have done about it?
>
> I tried restarting a few times.
> I tried to start up in single user mode (cmd-S) but this did not work.
> I tried to zap the PRAM, but the key combination did nothing.
> The Apple logo had turned in to a grey fuzzy square.
> I put in a bootable CD with some utilties, but cmd-C would not work, 
> to cause boooting from the CD.
> After a few more restarts, I had my free space back, the Apple logo 
> had reappeared, and everything seems fine.
>
> What was that ???
>
> Has anyone else seen this freaky kind of thing?
>

Have you tried running OmniDiskSweeper to see if your partition had any 
huge cache or log files? Photoshop, Word and the CUPS printing server, 
for example, can create enormous (invisible) temporary files.

In general, any partition should have at least 15-20% of free disk 
space to guard against suddenly expending cache, log or swap files, as 
well as to prevent excessive file fragmentation.

Ciao,

          Renaud