Mac OS 10.6.3 Server Hard Drive Space mysteriously disappears
Was wondering if anyone else has seen this issue. Every so often, my hard drive space on my server goes from about 60 GB available to almost nothing. I have revealed invisible files and do not see any that are hogging that space. I was wondering if it may be a cache file or some other anamoly I am not seeing? Once I restart the server, the space comes back. I do not know enough where to look or what to look for to "catch" this problem in action. I look on Console for messages and see some things happening there, but those messages do not appear to be the issue, but that comes from my limited knowledge.
This "seems" to have been happening since we upgraded to Retrospect 8. It never worked correctly with our tape drive, so I uninstalled and reverted back to 6.1.23. There may be some latent files still running in the background.
It should look somewhat like this:
xxxx% sudo du -x -h -d 1 /
Password:
24K /.fseventsd
1,9G /.Spotlight-V100
0B /.TemporaryItems
0B /.Trashes
0B /.vol
17G /Applications
9,0M /bin
0B /cores
4,5K /dev
1,2G /Developer
14G /Library
1,0K /net
0B /Network
10,0G /opt
4,4G /private
6,8M /sbin
4,0G /System
157G /Users <------ in this example this folder contains the most GB's
1,7G /usr
4,0K /Volumes
xxxG / <------ xxx GB : this is the total for all folders above.
So the results are presented one folder at a time in alphabetical order (?) with the total at the end.
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