Q: HD free space going from 700MB to 7GB w/ reboot?
I have a MacBook Air with a 128GB SSD. I have it partitioned with Bootcamp, and the size of the OS X partition is ~40GB.* It was giving me a message that I only had ~700MB of space left and I needed to clean up my hard drive to continue downloading files. I checked Activity Monitor, and indeed this was the amount it showed as being free.
After I rebooted for unrelated reasons, the partition suddenly showed as having ~10GB free. After a couple of minutes it showed 7.75GB free, where it seems to have stabilized. I did not do anything else to adjust the amount of free space on the HD.
Does this make any sense? What could have happened?
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* I need to repartition, but that is a separate conversation.
MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.5), 2GB RAM, 1.86 Intel GHz Core 2 Duo
Posted on Jan 29, 2013 8:33 PM
No, it doesn't; it just means that the system hasn't needed to modify their contents since then.
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Posted on Jan 29, 2013 11:04 PM

