What is taking up so much space on my HD?

Do you run incremental mail backups onto the same drive?

Issue:
sudo du -ax | sort -n | tail -100
To see the largest files and directories (will take a while)

Not knowing what else is on your drive, I can't really tell you whether you need a bigger drive or not 😉

Also check that you haven't by mistake created a folder inside /volumes so it's writing in to your local disk rather than external one.

Well, don't know what is in the folders/volumes 😉

Click here and follow the first set of instructions to remove the sleepimage; the folder directly in Volumes can be deleted if you don't need anything in it.

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A reboot can usually clear some of these files out, but I'd expect some or all of these will come right back.

How much physical memory is in this box? (Confirming the 4 GB you list in the footer?) Too little available memory can lead to the creation of swapfile images. Application load tends to need to get swapped out to somewhere.

Here are some details on the sleepimage, from [messageID 2530191|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=2530191].

And that (I assume) amavis.log file can probably simply be removed. There is probably a tool or a script around to manage it, too. It's the mail filtering log for the anti-virus software.

I'd get a 750 GB (or two, and set up mirroring), mayhap two or four memory sticks (based on the existence of the swapfiles), and move along to the next issue. 80 GB isn't all that much storage in reality.

It depends on how busy your server is in general. 4GB should be plenty for mail though.

Also, amavis.log can be safely deleted and recreated.

Also, amavis.log can be safely deleted and recreated.

Create it yourself. (If you actually need it. Maybe you are logging into mail.log. Depends on your amavisd.conf settings)

Those are the virtual memory swapfiles, and shouldn't be deleted directly; if you quit applications and processes, Mac OS X will reclaim the space used by swapfiles that aren't needed.

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