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Investigating disk space in Mac OS X (1021932)

Last Updated: 8/17/2015Categories: Best PracticesTotal Views: 11315Language:
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Disk space usage information is useful in addressing problems encountered as a result of a lack of disk space. Problems related to disk usage can include:

Slow operating system performance

Slow application performance

An application is unable to load

An application cannot continue to run

The operating system unexpectedly stops or fails to respond

Purpose

This article discusses general disk space use. To investigate a virtual machine's disk space use, see Verifying sufficient disk space for a VMware Fusion virtual machine (1021877).

Resolution

To determine disk space usage in Mac OS X:

Open a new Finder window.

Select Macintosh HD (or the drive you are checking).

Control-click the selected drive, and click Get Info.

Under the General section, you can see the total Capacity, the space Available, and the Used space.

To see see the disk space usage information from the command line:

From Finder, go to Applications > Utilities.

Open Terminal.

Type df -H and press Enter.

Disk usage is displayed for each file system. The first entry, that reads Mounted on / , is your boot volume.

Note: To exit from Terminal, go to File > Quit and click OK to acknowledge the warning.

Related Information

Disk utility in Mac can also be used to determine free space or disk information.

Launch Disk Utility from /Applications/Utilities folder

On the left hand side click on your Hard disk item listed (usually Mac HD or Macintosh HD) to review the information.

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