DISK full error.unable to load
I'm using my hackintosh without problems for more than a month and averything is working fine. Now I have a problem. When I start my system snow leopard gives a message saying that there isn't enough free space on the hard drive and it…
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I'm using my hackintosh without problems for more than a month and averything is working fine. Now I have a problem. When I start my system snow leopard gives a message saying that there isn't enough free space on the hard drive and it doesn't load. If I look up at the disk from windows 7, it's all full (almost 500gb) but I can't find any big file or anything. How can I solve this problem? two days ago there were less that 100gb full on that hard drive...
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I tried again and now it doesn't even gives the message anymore now it just gives the Prohibition sign and doesn't let me do anything. I think that there are some serious problems with the disk itself. Do you know any application that I can use to repair a mc disk on windows?
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I don't know of any Windows utilities; however, if you can boot your install disk and open a Terminal, or use the HFS+ support in some Linux emergency disks, you should be able to use the "du" command to see what's using disk space. Use "cd" to change into the root directory of your disk and then type:
du -s * | sort -nThis will create a list of the files and directories in the current directory, sorted by size, with the largest files and directories at the bottom. If the biggest disk space hogs are directories, you can cd into them and repeat this process until you find out what's chewing up so much disk space.