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sydneyfixie2011

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Nov 5, 2011
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I have a iMac running OS X Leopard (version 10.5.8). In Finder the primary hard drive has 297.77 Gb with 2.38 GB available (the file system is Journaled HFS+).

However, I think the freespace is too small. When I add up the total disk space reported in Finder for in the Applications (4.6GB), Library (9GB), private (5.2GB), System (4.3GB) and Users (40GB) directories I don't use anywhere near 300GB of space. These are the only significant directories in finder.

I have tried using both Omnisweep and the command line disk utility (du -h) to find the 'hidden' large files or directories without success.

What can be causing my mac to report such a low freespace figure? Is there an issue with the journaling system keeping copies of old files and and not deleting them? If so, how do I do delete all the old versions (I can't see them in Finder)? Are there vm swap files somewhere that can be deleted? If so, how do I delete them. Is it something else?

I have three users on the system (me and two children) but as I am superuser I'd like to check everything from root down to find the files which are using the space. How do I do this?

Thanks,

Ian
 
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