Ventura disk full, reboot cleared

[Hicksmat1976]

Hi all

my new organisation has a number of Macs running Ventura however they all have the same bug - the Mac becomes unusable and it turns out the reason why is that the drive is full (500GB SSD). A reboot clears the "bug" and frees up 400GB+ of drive space. This can happen a few times a day. Any help?

thanks

Matt.

 

[Tagbert]

Hi all

my new organisation has a number of Macs running Ventura however they all have the same bug - the Mac becomes unusable and it turns out the reason why is that the drive is full (500GB SSD). A reboot clears the "bug" and frees up 400GB+ of drive space. This can happen a few times a day. Any help?

thanks

Matt.

I have two machines running Ventura and have not seen that. Do you have any idea what is causing it? Is there something doing massing logging and not doing cleanup? Is it something unique to your organization? I have not heard of this problem from others.

 

[svenmany]

Same here, two machines running Ventura and haven't seen that.

There has to be some software that your organization is installing on all the machines that is causing this.

 

[rpmurray]

You may want to install a program like DaisyDisk and run a scan periodically on the drive to see what's taking up all the space before it forces you to reboot.

 

[svenmany]

I use DaisyDisk and I do recommend it. However, you might not be allowed to install such a took on work computers.

There is a temporary files directory that is cleared on reboot. Various programs write to that.

In terminal type:

echo $TMPDIR

That will show you the name of that directory. I'd take a look in their to see if there are files which could be causing this. The names of those files will likely tell you which process created them.

 

[HDFan]

You can also check disk usage by process in Activity Monitor.

 

[Tagbert]

You can also check disk usage by process in Activity Monitor.

Yes, Disk Writes by process would be very telling.

 

[Honza1]

my new organisation has a number of Macs running Ventura however they all have the same bug - the Mac becomes unusable and it turns out the reason why is that the drive is full (500GB SSD). A reboot clears the "bug" and frees up 400GB+ of drive space. This can happen a few times a day. Any help?

This is not common (we would hear a lot more about it by now) so there is something unique on setup at your organization. Likely some software installed on all devices has bug. Some time ago we had number of Windows computers running out of disk space due to Microsoft OneNote bug which seemed to manifest itself in our environment. Was not common bug at that time, nothing wide spread, but happened in our environment on multiple machines in short time. So it can be combination of specific applications/utilities/configurations which provokes this. Challenge to find for sure. Good luck.