Hard disk questions
Today I realised that my 500Gb harddisk had its used space increased from 250GB to 480GB over one night!
I did not copy or duplicate folders and this is baffling me. But I have been having problems with my emails that keep on crashing when i connect to it via IMAP
A quick check with OmniDiskSweeper shows that I have same folders and files in /Volumes and /Users...
what actually happened and can someone help me to fix it pls?
Sharizal Shaarani wrote:
Today I realised that my 500Gb harddisk had its used space increased from 250GB to 480GB over one night!
This thread
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11268755
may give you useful advice on how to find your problem. Don't use the suggested command in the thread linked off the earlier message. Instead follow the revised command in a later message.
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IDE0: A 80Gb HD with the root partition (including /temp and so), another partition for swap and another one for /boot
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Would that considerably increase the performance of the whole machine?
Even the movies are in the SATA HD (way faster than the IDE one) the swap and the temp folder are still in the IDE disk...
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