David Klaus wrote:Hi all;
I have a B/W G4, 10.2.8, 2 hard drives with some partitioning.
My boot partition says 250.3 megs free, but any writes to it result in "disk full". IF I move files off that partition, I can continue to write to it until we get down to this 250 meg free reading again, then it's full.
Is this usual? I would have expected the memory swap area to take up "real" disk space. Especially with Un*x...
Thanks,
Brian
How big is you boot partition? Realistically, you want at least 20% reported free on any disk partition and with OS X, you definitely want at least twice the amount of RAM you have free on the boot disk and preferably 4+ times.
I would agree here.. I've found the best setup for me in my beige MT is a 6 gig hd with X (10.2.8) on it and all my apps and third party stuff on a second 80 gig hd that is patitioned in half for diffrent things.. But more than anything RAM! RAM! and more RAM!..
It's an 80 gig drive with a 20 meg boot partition, and the remainder for data.
You probably mean 20 GB, not 20MB, right?
I understand the need for space, but NOT why space would be marked as available but not really be available.
All Unix machines report disk usage at 100% when it is actually only 90% full. This is because if the system were to REALLY run out of disk space then things would be REALLY REALLY bad. It's a self-preservation thing.
there are 512 megs RAM in this machine, and I would expect swap space to actually take up a portion of the hard drive is it does on other systems. Not that it would bypass the filesystem but then somehow cause copies to fail due to no space left.... I've offloaded stuff onto a 200gig firewire drive but still want to understand the issue as it presented itself....
I'm late to the party here, so if there is more to the thread than what I have quoted then I have missed that part.
What is the output of "df -k" from Terminal? If you have one partition specifically for data, what are you putting on the 20GB partition that is filling it up? What is the output of "du -sk /*" from Terminal? (This latter one will potentially take a LONG time to run. Let it complete.)
Eagle
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