lion eating my hard drive space

Hi,

Found a solution. it is to do with Lion OS backing up when time machine backup drive is not connected.

It can be disabled.

http://http://toti.posterous.com/hidden-local-backups-with-mac-os-x-lion-filli

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

Kudos to Pondini!

OmniDiskSweeper finally showed me, what is eating my hard drive space:

/private/var/log/asl/

/private/var/log/system.log

Now I have to find out why and how to stop it!

Here's how:

In Finder, ⇧⌘G, enter /etc

Open the file newsyslog.conf and change

@T00 tells the log to rotate at 12am, but if you're not logged in at 12am, it won't rotate ("If a time is specified, the log file will only be trimmed if newsyslog(8) is run within one hour of the specified time.")

The change will rotate at when the size hits 1000k

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

/private/var/log/asl/

Just delete most of those, per the green box in OSX Log Files.

/private/var/log/system.log

See the blue box in the same link.

akina99 wrote:

Hi,

Found a solution. it is to do with Lion OS backing up when time machine backup drive is not connected.

It can be disabled.

http://http://toti.posterous.com/hidden-local-backups-with-mac-os-x-lion-filli

The information there is partially correct, partially wrong. See #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions

Tony T1 wrote:

/var/log/system.log 640 7 * @T00 J to /var/log/system.log 640 7 1000 * J

@T00 tells the log to rotate at 12am, but if you're not logged in at 12am, it won't rotate ("If a time is specified, the log file will only be trimmed if newsyslog(8) is run within one hour of the specified time.")

That will change the rotation, but won't address any problem that's filling the logs. See OSX Log Files

That will change the rotation, but won't address any problem that's filling the logs. See OSX Log Files

True, but even w/o any problems, the log will never rotate if the user is never logged in between 12am and 1am

Pondini wrote:

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

/private/var/log/asl/

Just delete most of those, per the green box in OSX Log Files.

He has 13GB in those, most within 3 days, so deleting will not solve the problem.

Seems his problem is with AUX (...no idea what that is)

Tony T1 wrote:

He has 13GB in those, most within 3 days, so deleting will not solve the problem.

But it will free up several GBs.

Seems his problem is with AUX (...no idea what that is)

Look at them.

Pondini wrote:

Tony T1 wrote:

He has 13GB in those, most within 3 days, so deleting will not solve the problem.

But it will free up several GBs.

As you said yourself "That... won't address any problem that's filling the logs"

Tony T1 wrote:

. . .

As you said yourself "That... won't address any problem that's filling the logs"

Very good.

If space is critical, don't you think it might be worth freeing some up while looking for the cause?

Pondini wrote:

Tony T1 wrote:

. . .

As you said yourself "That... won't address any problem that's filling the logs"

Very good.

If space is critical, don't you think it might be worth freeing some up while looking for the cause?

Of course, I didn't mean to imply that he should not delete those logs, only that he not think that this solved his problem. (Very strange that he's filling up gibabits of log files in only a day. I'm curious what's causing it).

/var/log/system.log 640 7 * @T00 J to /var/log/system.log 640 7 1000 * J

@T00 tells the log to rotate at 12am, but if you're not logged in at 12am, it won't rotate ("If a time is specified, the log file will only be trimmed if newsyslog(8) is run within one hour of the specified time.")

The change will rotate at when the size hits 1000k

I am logged in at 12 am sometimes, not everyday, but every other day.

But I am always logged in as "normal user" and not as "admin"

Will try this and lets see if it works!

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

Will try this and lets see if it works!

George, your biggest problem are the ASL logs. What do you see in those logs? They're hugh!

Pondini wrote:

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

/private/var/log/asl/

Just delete most of those, per the green box in OSX Log Files.

/private/var/log/system.log

See the blue box in the same link.

Took this screenshot before I did a new Lion installation.

But now I know what I can delete and will have a look at the log files in there the next days.

Pondini wrote:

Tony T1 wrote:

He has 13GB in those, most within 3 days, so deleting will not solve the problem.

But it will free up several GBs.

Seems his problem is with AUX (...no idea what that is)

Look at them.

Each of these AUX folders contain several thousands of small files containing this

WebProcess(8244) deny file-read-data /Users/portenkirchner/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AIR/ELS/FBAIR.596FB312AB4AF14A42BA76B7E8A07B54AC2BED3A.1/PrivateE ncryptedDatak

So I uninstalled Adobe AIR, as I haven't used any AIR application for months.

Hope this will stop this!