Running out of Gigs of disk space within seconds

I can't pin-point the exact reason, but recently, a certain operation has caused my 69 Gig root partition to suddenly jumps from less than 30% used to 100% used...twice. I believe it has to do with yaourt, but it could just as easily be flash or slim at this rate.
Yesterday, when I had this problem, I ran "pacman -Sc", deleted all the old log files, and finally, rebooted. This heavily reduced the load that time (100% to 19%), but today, running "pacman -Scc" and restarting turned out to only reduce the used percentage from 100% to 95%. Any ideas why this is happening, where to amend it, and how to prevent this problem in the future?

jasonwryan wrote:
If it is yaourt related, it may be /tmp.
You need to narrow down where the disk space is being eaten up:
df -k
Like this?
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 10240 212 10028 3% /dev
/dev/sda7 72075600 64670416 3743924 95% /
shm 1284280 308 1283972 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 253871 16188 224576 7% /boot
/dev/sda8 51605116 7032088 41951640 15% /home
/dev/sda3 41943036 22088176 19854860 53% /mnt/share
/dev/sda2 136215132 57500848 78714284 43% /mnt/windows
I've noticed var, usr, and opt seems to be pretty large. The other big folders are mounted from separate partitions.
$ sudo du -hs /*
5.7M /bin
14M /boot
212K /dev
7.2M /etc
du: cannot access `/home/japtar10101/.gvfs': Permission denied
6.6G /home
75M /lib
4.0K /lib64
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
75G /mnt
2.3G /opt
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/task/4971/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/task/4971/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0 /proc
3.8M /root
9.9M /sbin
20K /srv
0 /sys
740K /tmp
5.5G /usr
124M /var
$ sudo du -hs /usr/*
354M /usr/bin
235M /usr/include
2.2G /usr/lib
190M /usr/lib32
4.0K /usr/libexec
216K /usr/local
12K /usr/man
10M /usr/sbin
2.5G /usr/share
54M /usr/src
$ sudo du -hs /var/*
5.4M /var/cache
4.0K /var/empty
12K /var/games
112M /var/lib
4.0K /var/local
12K /var/lock
6.0M /var/log
0 /var/mail
4.0K /var/opt
120K /var/run
104K /var/spool
12K /var/tmp
$ sudo du -hs /opt/*
5.0M /opt/doukutsu
517M /opt/sauerbraten
112M /opt/secondlife
431M /opt/warsow
1.3G /opt/xonotic
Last edited by japtar10101 (2011-03-12 06:29:30)

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If you want to use some of the clips in other projects, you can drag and drop them from one open iMovie window to another project's open window ... or do a Copy and Paste. You could keep your original project as the clip-storage location, from which you copy and paste into other projects. Note that because of the non-destructive editing method that imovie employs, plus the space-demanding DV format (13 GB per hour of video) you can quickly run out of storage capacity. Many people buy a large capacity external drive (formatted for Macs!) to overcome this issue.
The clips are in DV format which is the lossless format suitable for editing purposes - it is the format that imovie HD is designed for.
The iMovie Help menu is worth using, plus these tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/support/imoviehd/
Here is a very good book:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nbssb/103-8577706-6553428?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=imovie+6&x=0& y=0

Running out of disk space - External Drive Advice

Hi,
I've been importing all of our HDV video in "Large" fomat (Not the original or full size). We have an Apple TV so wanted to get the qaulity up for our large TV.
Anyway, we have lots of digital pics, huge iTunes library and now I'm starting to run out of disk space with all of my iMovie imports.
I would like to buy a huge external drive to help offload:
Is there any reason I should be concerned about storing my video on external drive? Any editing performance issues?
I use time machine, if I buy a huge external, can I split it in half and use part for time machine and part for imovie?
Just curious.
Thx,
Brent

I agree that you can make this work. Your external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). You can do this as you are creating your 2 partitions in Disk Utility, if it has a different formatting when you buy it.
If you want to move your Events from your internal drive to your new external drive, you need to do it from within iMovie so you do not break the links to your projects. To do this, open iMovie and click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. You should be able to see a small icon in your Event Library List for your external drive. You can Command-Drag your event icons in the event library list to this icon for your external, and all the links to your projects will be preserved. (hold down the command key while dragging). If you do a simple drag and drop, it will copy not move.

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