[Ti] disappearing disk space (note)

[David DelMonte]

Trevor, There is a long article on this "feature" in today's 
macintouch.com.

I did not go all the way through it, but it may be useful.

David



On Feb 24, 2004, at 4:57 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

>
> 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?
>
> regards,  Trevor
>