Boot Drive tripled in size over night

[sboerup]

Ran Disk Utility and did verify and repair (from boot DVD), no errors . . . still coming up with 53GB used when previously it was 19.5GB yesterday . . . very strange.

 

[typecase]

My recommendation is to try daisyDisk. It offers a lot more useful disk info than the blocky bubbly display of your previous program. It has saved me tons of disk space and is by far one of the most intuitive programs I've ever used.

 

[sboerup]

My recommendation is to try daisyDisk. It offers a lot more useful disk info than the blocky bubbly display of your previous program. It has saved me tons of disk space and is by far one of the most intuitive programs I've ever used.

Doesn't look like DaisyDisk is showing my anything different:

After all these apps and scans, is it safe to say that Finder is just showing bad data? What makes me most curious is that GrandPerspective is showing the "miscellaneous used space" of 30.5GB . . .

 

[jedijoe]

Maybe something crashed overnight and the 30GB used is in some resource fork or other filesystem metadata object. I dunno.

This is strange. Worse case you have to reformat the drive. Hopefully you an external drive.. If so, you can also use Carbon Copy Cloner (http://www.bombich.com/) to clone the drive to the external.. see if the extra used space gets brought over on the clone... If not, than you could format and then clone the external back to the SSD.

But it would suck to have to do all that. Did the terminal command I posted show anything different?

for dir in /*; do sudo du -sh $dir; done

for dir in /private/*; do sudo du -sh $dir; done

 

[sboerup]

I have SuperDuper and use it on a daily basis. It cloned my boot (after I found the extra space reporting) and it is also 18GB. This is all just very strange.

 

[reel2reel]

I have SuperDuper and use it on a daily basis. It cloned my boot (after I found the extra space reporting) and it is also 18GB. This is all just very strange.

Have you already tried revealing invisible items?