Hi all.
All of a sudden I'm frequently getting "Your disk space is critically low. Older terminal scrollback contents may be discarded to conserve VM backing store."
But I have 75 GB available on my boot partition.
Anybody have an explanation for this? Thanks!
Reboot into Safe Boot mode, and then reboot normally. Do a cold shutdown, and then on power up, press and hold the shift key at the boot chime — until you see the boot progress bar. The System is performing some house-keeping so this type of boot is slower, and may introduce some temporary display issues before the login prompt.
After a normal reboot, do the low diskspace messages still appear?
Reboot into Safe Boot mode, and then reboot normally. Do a cold shutdown, and then on power up, press and hold the shift key at the boot chime — until you see the boot progress bar. The System is performing some house-keeping so this type of boot is slower, and may introduce some temporary display issues before the login prompt.
After a normal reboot, do the low diskspace messages still appear?
Thanks for the reply.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk2s1 282G 212G 59G 79% 2421097 9223372036852354710 0% /
devfs 227k 227k 0B 100% 768 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk2s4 282G 2.1G 59G 4% 1 9223372036854775806 0% /private/var/vm
/dev/disk1s3 839G 287G 552G 35% 27177 4294940102 0% /Volumes/data
map -hosts 0B 0B 0B 100% 0 0 100% /net
map auto_home 0B 0B 0B 100% 0 0 100% /home
Thanks. Heaven forbid the error dialog have a source in the title bar. It specifically referred to terminal scrollback contents, so it seemed to be from Terminal.
I've dragged my boot partition into the "privacy" area in Spotlight preferences, so we'll see what happens. Do you know if that immediately deletes the Spotlight index?
Terminal?
From terminal command line, copy and paste:
df -H
Thanks. How is the Spotlight index responsible for this problem?
The popup with the error notice was from macOS, not terminal.
Rebuild the index and see if your problem resolves.
Usually within seconds.
Well, rebuilding the Spotlight index has proven NOT to be the solution...
Terminal erroneously reports low disk space
