[X Newbies] How the Grinch Stole 45GB of My Hard Drive

[Kirk McElhearn]

On 11/30/02 8:27, "Aaron Dickey" <thewar at adelphia.net> wrote:

> 
> Now I know that with Unix, programs and files can sometime end up in
> strange places, and can often end up being invisible, so I thought I'd
> post here in case somebody could let me know of any Stupid Unix Tricks
> (or OS X Tricks) that might help find out what's suddenly sucking up
> half my drive space, 'cause I'm stumped.

Have you tried rebooting? You could have a whole bunch of invisible sway
files (used for virtual memory management).


Kirk

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