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BenP
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2011-04-20, 09:52

My Macbook Pro had about 60 GB of free space when I went to bed last night. When I woke up, there was a popup that said my startup disk was full and some applications had been paused because there was no more virtual memory.

I quit everything and restarted, and after logging in I had a blank blue screen and no applications, including Finder, were running. I couldn't access the Dock or Sportlight, and the only thing in my menu bar was Dropbox.

I zapped the PRAM, which didn't help. Same result.

I restarted in Safe Mode, and everything seemed OK, except for the fact that I was missing 60 GB of space. I deleted some nonessential files just in case. The SMART status of the HD is verified and I repaired permissions. I haven't tried rebooting again.

In addition, the iPod I had plugged into the MacBook no longer works, and iTunes repeatedly says that it's corrupt, even after restoring it.

What the heck is going on?
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alcimedes
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2011-04-20, 10:30

Check your log files. One of them went nuts more than likely.

Disk Inventory X is also a great app. to scan your drive and look for huge files.

http://www.derlien.com/

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Wyatt
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2011-04-20, 11:12

+1 for Disk Inventory X. It's always my go-to tool for a full drive. (There's also a Windows equivalent, WinDirStat, which I use on Windows servers at work all the time.)

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BenP
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2011-04-20, 18:49

The krb5kdc folder in /private/var/log is 65 gb, but I'm guessing I can't just delete that...
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alcimedes
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2011-04-21, 00:38

Go ahead and delete the massive log files, see if they come back or not. Won't hurt to wipe the logs.
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BenP
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2011-04-21, 05:55

I can't cd to the folder to see what files to delete, thoug. Should I try something other than sudo cd /private/var/log/krb5kdc?
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alcimedes
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2011-04-21, 07:43

From the terminal:

sudo su

cd /private/var/log/krb5kdc
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turtle
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2011-04-21, 12:13

You can delete from within Disk Inventory X normally also.
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2011-04-21, 13:47

DaisyDisk looks interesting. It's a little spendy but purdy.
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BenP
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2011-04-21, 20:58

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Originally Posted by alcimedes View Post
From the terminal:

sudo su

cd /private/var/log/krb5kdc
Thank you! Everything looks OK now.
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