HD Space confusion

b0xerussb0xeruss
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
This is VERY strange. I have a 30gig HD in my iBook. 27gigs usable. All my folders that are viewable add up to 9.9gigs. That means something is taking up 7gigs. Does macOS really take up 7gigs!!!???



What folders take up the bulk of this space. I would think its /dev and /bin

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    jake bulletjake bullet Posts: 49member
    Do you have GarageBand? The application support files for it are around 1.8 Gig. Might help to explain some of the discrepancy.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    mikefmikef Posts: 698member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by b0xeruss

    What folders take up the bulk of this space. I would think its /dev and /bin



    I've been meaning to write a utility that will graph out disk consumption by folder/files... maybe I should look into that more seriously



    At any rate, /dev will not consume a significant amount of disk space.



    From a Terminal window, run 'du -sh /foldername'...
  • Reply 3 of 3
    cakecake Posts: 1,010member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mikef

    I've been meaning to write a utility that will graph out disk consumption by folder/files... maybe I should look into that more seriously



    OmniDiskSweeper does just that.
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