XServe (Intel) main drive space issue after 10.5.7 upgrade

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XServe (Intel) main drive space issue after 10.5.7 upgrade

Suddenly, the 75GB Boot Volume on my Xserve says it only has 1.6GB of space left. This is not accurate and I am not sure what is going on. This seemed to happen after the 10.5.7 server update. I ran disk permissions several times, rebooted, zapped the PRAM. I want to re-install the downloaded 10.5.7 server update but the drive is not recognized to have enough space.

Xserve Intel dual 2.55Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 4, 2009 8:34 AM

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Matthew Hegge Author

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Jun 4, 2009 9:59 AM in response to Matthew Hegge

I did a Omnisweeper to the disc in question:

16.6 GB usr
6.0 GB Library
5.0 GB private
3.8 GB System
1.8 GB Applications
1.0 GB Users
and about 27 MBs for the rest

It is a 75GB capacity (80GB) drive...it just is not adding up

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Jun 4, 2009 3:00 PM in response to Matthew Hegge

Hi

On the server launch Terminal and issue:

sudo du -chxd 1 /

Be patient as it will take a while. It might probably end up being some runaway log in /var/log? Or - if you're using the Print Service - print jobs that have not been flushed; /var/spool/cups. Or you've possibly - inadvertently - saved a disk image (or two) in /Volumes.

Tony

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Matthew Hegge Author

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Jun 5, 2009 6:30 AM in response to Antonio Rocco

I will give that a shot. Thanks

I do not use print services. I am running the newest version of Retrospect (v8) to a Tandberg StorageLibrary and am hoping that has nothing to do with it.

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Matthew Hegge Author

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Jun 5, 2009 7:22 AM in response to Antonio Rocco

No change in disc space after running the sudo du -chxd 1 /, unless that changes at next restart?

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Jun 5, 2009 8:27 AM in response to Matthew Hegge

That command will not change anything on your drive, but will display detailed information about disk usage. Finder or Omnisweeper might not check all the drive contents.

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Matthew Hegge Author

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Jun 5, 2009 8:30 AM in response to Witold Oleksiak

All I got was a runaway log. I have run other commands that do a Omniscan-type check. It does not solve my issue though, just gives a report that does not add up.

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Jun 5, 2009 8:35 AM in response to Matthew Hegge

That command displays total file sizes count in the last line. Could you please check if it really does not add up ?

If so, try running disk verify from Disk Utility and see if it reports any errors.

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Jun 5, 2009 10:01 AM in response to Matthew Hegge

I haven't tried it on 10.5 Server yet but under 10.3/4 I've always gotten good results from *Disk Inventory X* especially when launched using Pseudo to make sure you have root permissions for the disk check. One nice thing is it gives a graphical feedback which makes it easy to spot the culprit if something is taking a bunch of space.

HTH,
=Tod

PS I just wanted to add this reminds me of the first time I really used DIX to good effect. I had a user who had inadvertently ended up with his drive becoming the target of his Retrospect back-up process so it was backing itself up to itself. He couldn't see the hidden Retrospect volume but he knew his drive space was magically disappearing. Hmmm...

http://www.derlien.com/
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/pseudo.html

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