[X4U] Hard drive space

[David Ledger]

At 13:48 -0800 25/1/08, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>From: Robert <rashton at telus.net>
>So far nothing has worked. I have tried everything that everyone has
>suggested. If I reboot I will have 40 gb and I can watch it drop. Last
>resort will be to back up and reformat and do a clean install. Not
>looking forward to doing that  but it will be a last resort. It would
>be nice to figure out what is causing this. As I had 10.4 on this
>drive before installing 10.5 I wonder if there is something that I had
>on the drive that 10.5 does not like. Anyway thanks for all of the
>suggestions.  Bob

Reboot, but don't log in. Leave it until, if you were logged in, the 
space would have reduced significantly. Log in and check the space. 
This will tell you if the space grabber is running all the time or 
only when you're logged in.

Do you have any other machine running on the same network? (If so it 
would allow logging in from that and more diagnostics would be 
possible without the overhead of the GUI).

David


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