Re [Ti] disappearing disk space

Ray M ray at dm.net.lb
Tue Feb 24 15:55:59 PST 2004


Hello trevor, I had the exact same thing under jaguar... I took my computer
to the apple repair shop... They diagnosed the problem as beeing the hard
disk that was damaged! I had it replaced in no time... Now everything is
back to normal.

Ray

Ti 667 OSX 10.3.2

> 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?
> 
> regards,  Trevor



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