Less and less free space in disk everyday!?

A few days ago I noticed that my free space in disk was going down with no apparent reason... yesterday I woke up and discovered that my free space in disk was... 0kb! doing nothing different, nor downloading stuff or so...
I 've been searching all day long for a reason and discovered some files in /private/var/log/DiagnosticMessages/ that apparently went nuts (2, 5 & 6 Gib logfiles?):
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Does anyone know something about?

If you haven't already - try a shutting it down rather than putting it to sleep.
I've been experiencing exactly the same thing. I was excited when Leopard gave me an additional 11gb of free space - but then it started shrinking.
For the last 5 days, EVERYTIME I turn my computer on it says "Zero MB available". Each day I've had to clear between 1-2gb a day to allow myself to do the most basic of tasks.
I reckon it's a problem with the swap files. I just "Shut Down" my computer and on a restart gained 12gb back.
I'd be interested to know if this works for you.
Steve

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Delete it. Erasing the free space isn't supposed to free up any space; it's there in case someone deleted a file insecurely when they meant to securely delete it.
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Hi
I have a problem with my main Logical Volume Group / Partition. So My main Logical Volume Group (Macintosh HD) was separated into 2 partitions. I decided to delete the second one, and once the process started in Disk Utility, it crashed. Now if I look at the Logical Volume Group, it is separated in two, first one being Macintosh HD, and the second one is greyed out and is "Free Space".
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If you wish to delete data, the best option would be to encrypt everything on the drive (locking everything with a password) and then erasing the drive. This would atleast scramble the left over data. The problem is that SSDs have a wear controlling firmware that distribute the load accordingly, so the entire drive wears evenly. Secure erase wouldnt work since secure erase works by first erasing the refrences to the data, and then writing 0s over the left over data. Since the firmware distributes the load differently each time, there is no guarantee that the data would be covered in 0s.

How to defragment and compact free space in Intel based iMacs?

Hi. I had some problems with the OS, so I decided to re-install it. After that I deleted a lot of Stuff I don't really need. Now I have big blocks of free Space in my hard drive and I think that make do an annoing noise. I tryed "iDefrag" but this software just let me do a very normal quick Defrag.
iDefrag says that in order to compact free space, I have to unmount the volume from a different one with the System already installed on it...or from a CD.
I tryed using my FW drive. But it doesn't work as I spected.
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Licht,
Nope, and I wouldn't even try the Norton method. It is fraught with difficulty and can leave you in worse shape than you were before. Best to clone twice and erase, and restore. That's much safer. Here's my FAQ on backing up which includes how to clone:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
For bigger files than Mac OS X defragments on the fly which I mention earlier in the thread, I've found using a separate scratch partition that I can erase with Disk Utility when I'm done creating content and want to create new content that is video or audio works best. The only time Mac OS X experiences fragmentation is with large video files.
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Clicked erase free space in disk utility, now I have no SPACE!

I ran erase free space in disk utility in hopes of freeing up more room on my hard drive, and had 34 GB free, but now it says zero kb available. I have never done this before. It still has twelve hours to go, and I was wondering if this was normal.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) White 2 Ghz.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7) White 2 Ghz.

Doing so does not free up any hard drive space.
Copied from this link.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1010.html
You might see a message saying that you are running out of disk space, but you can ignore that warning. When this operation is complete, you will have the same amount of free space as you did when it started.
For suggestions to free up hard drive space, check this link.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

Error: There is insufficient free space on disk volume

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I am trying to add Appset and getting this error:
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My question is :
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Can anyone please help?
Best regards,
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Hi Santosh,
Thanks for your answer.
I am sorry I don't understand well what did you mean.
What I wanted to say is that DataBase creation failed so AppSet copy has failed and this is due to lack of disk space as mentioned in the error message.
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So something went wrong when I tried to bootcamp.
Now the situation is following:
1) I can't install Windows using USB stick, it says that the free space is in GPT;
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markov-mac:~ markov$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         100.3 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *100.0 GB   disk1
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 0F0D9268-58FC-4832-8FCB-4A11FB5675F6
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         100335546368 B (100.3 GB)
    Free Space:   15724544 B (15.7 MB)
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    +-< Physical Volume 9B8968BE-CE97-4A66-B5B3-31B4EB87E21F
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    |   Index:    0
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        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
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Difference between free space on disk and column FREE_MB in V$ASM_DISKGROUP

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in our RAC environment we have setup an ACFS. We use that mainly for RMAN backups. When connecting to the ASM instance and executing the query
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DG00_CRS MOUNTED 10738 9912
DG01_FR MOUNTED 409592 360173
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JH

ACFS is a 11.2 feature, while ASM existed long before
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I thought I was creating free space by erasing free space using disk utility but what I really did was literally ERASE MY FREE SPACE on my Macbook Pro 10.8.4 and all I want to know is what to do to recover my free space?

When I click on ABOUT THIS MAC and then on STORAGE it shows that I have like 700 gb of "OTHER" in yellow and all I want is for the yellow to disappear and have all my free space again! please someone help me
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Your free space hasn't gone anywhere. This is simply the initial result of the process. However, your free space should be there once you need to use it.
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Hi Glynn... So I gather. However, I didn't know at the time and may have screwed up. It ran fine for an hour, then said writing temporary files. After a few min's I got the error message start-up disk full, which it was. Not knowing what was happening, I hit skip. It them seem to hang, so I forced a quit.
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HARD TO SOLVE - User account free space and HD free space do not match

Hello.
I just upgraded my iMac from a 320Gb to a 1Tb, so as to have more space (obviously). The APR did install the HD since I did not want to mess myself with the hardware (I'm clumsy). I then reset the data via TimeMachine since all my files are in a filevault protected account.
I now have a problem they cannot solve. My user account (there's only one account on the whole computer, let's call it XYZ) is protected by filevault. In the user account XYZ there are only about 100Gb of space left, whereas the LocalHD clearly shows that there are more than 475Gb left on the LocalHD. I cannot turn off filevault as it keeps saying that I am missing about 370Gb of free space to turn off filevault.
And I need more space in my user account XYZ for various reasons, one of them being synchronisation over internet et caetera. Does anyone have a solution which does not consist in moving every single file manually to a new user account?
My guess was that the filevault account XYZ is limited by size since it comes from the old HD which was only 320Gb, but even that makes no solution, as it occupies a lot more than 320Gb at this point (my iTunes lib is bigger). As I said, the Luxembourg APR have no idea how to solve this issue, I would be more than glad if one of you had a solution to trick the filevault account XYZ into believing it had more space allocated (I'm not that used to the terminal, it may be the key to the problem).
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Hi,
My guess was that the filevault account XYZ is limited by size since it comes from
the old HD which was only 320Gb,
Yes, I think this is what happened - see
*Mac OS X: FileVault-protected Home shows less capacity than what's available on the hard disk*
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24068
but even that makes no solution, as it occupies a lot more than 320Gb at this
point (my iTunes lib is bigger).
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The support article above suggests:
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sudo hdiutil resize -size 1000g /Users/username/username.sparsebundle
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But again, this seems risky - I can't recommend trying it except perhaps on a backup clone.
Message was edited by: jsd2

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Hi
I try to obtain the free space disk of c:\ (under windows NT). I use the class File but i obtain a size of 0 for the drive C:\
I use :
private static boolean estSuperieurAuSeuil(String disque, long seuil) {
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}

Why don't you implement your own code to calculate the full size of the disk?
Windows system itself does a recursive count.
(Which makes the request for a bug not founded since everytime you ask for the size, you would have to wait until the count is done.)
you could do this :
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} else {
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I am facing some issues related to my Time Capsule.
Reviewing my past, I had a lot of backups on this, using Time Machine and it always worked pretty well. But after deleting some backups manually to reclaim disk space, this was not exactly freeing it.
Searching in the forum here, I saw that I could mount the backup sparsebundle image and map it into the Disk Utility. This always worked greatly too both for disk checking and reclaiming the space back.
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Hi, I use my 120gb iPod classic to store films and tv shows on (in disk mode). these occupy round 35gb of the hard disk space and my music takes up around 30gb also. But the problem is I cannot copy any more things into the iPod (not in iTunes) in windows explorer. It says the destination disk drive is full. I have 50gb or so free! So what's going on?

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