I'm trying to clear space and...

[Misttam]

/dev/disk1 is taking up way too much space can anyone tell me what this is?

 

[BrianBaughn]

What's taking up the space? No way to know from that Terminal info.

 

[Randall2018]

I think that’s showing the total space used on your hard drive. If you want to find your biggest files instead of mucking around in the terminal go through the about this Mac screen and go into manage storage to find your biggest files and see what you can get rid of.

 

[maflynn]

Download and use OmniDiskSweeper. It will provide a sorted list of what's consuming your space.

 

[airlied]

so you are basically saying your disk is taking too much space......

 

[throAU]

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/dev/disk1 is taking up way too much space can anyone tell me what this is?

/dev/disk1 is your actual disk.

If you don't understand the terminal/unix filesystem representation of things, don't go in there looking to free space with RM or it will end in tears.

Get something like daisydisk.

 

[Aea]

--no-preserve-root all the things!