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<blockquote data-quote="BrenGun" data-source="post: 1312276" data-attributes="member: 124345"><p>Over the summer I had roughly 225G of a 500G HD left. Then I dropped below 200 which was due to alot of image scanning and adding photos and getting Aperture. But after this about for the past 6 weeks or so my hard drive has been steadily shrinking by itself to the point where I can watch it drop while I am not physically doing anything. I did some looking into it and found that its happened to other people and that it may be due to a growing error log file? I used Grand Perspective to find out that a couple of the largest unknown files are 'private/var/log/kernel.log.0' weighing in at 57.5G! and the smaller private/var/log/kernel.log.1' at 9.33G and private/var/vm/sleepimage' at 4G. What are these and can they be trashed and what can I do before I completely run out of hard drive space?</p><p>I was down as far as 137G as of yesterday and after a restart I'm back up slightly to 142G...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrenGun, post: 1312276, member: 124345"] Over the summer I had roughly 225G of a 500G HD left. Then I dropped below 200 which was due to alot of image scanning and adding photos and getting Aperture. But after this about for the past 6 weeks or so my hard drive has been steadily shrinking by itself to the point where I can watch it drop while I am not physically doing anything. I did some looking into it and found that its happened to other people and that it may be due to a growing error log file? I used Grand Perspective to find out that a couple of the largest unknown files are 'private/var/log/kernel.log.0' weighing in at 57.5G! and the smaller private/var/log/kernel.log.1' at 9.33G and private/var/vm/sleepimage' at 4G. What are these and can they be trashed and what can I do before I completely run out of hard drive space? I was down as far as 137G as of yesterday and after a restart I'm back up slightly to 142G... [/QUOTE]
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