Thanks, Steve. Sounds like you have it under control.
John
Quoting "Steven D. Brewer" <sbrewer_at_bio.umass.edu>:
> Today, one of our BCRC computers ran out of space on the ssd. The
> symptoms were a gray screen with a pointer that could move, but nothing
> else was visible. At some point, after rebooting, I saw a dialog box
> saying that the startup disk was full, but when I tried to log in, I got
> the same result.
>
> I rebooted using the recovery permission and opened a terminal. I didn't
> see any obvious problem. I removed a few cached user home directories
> from /Users/OneWeekBackup so I could reboot the system and have a more
> functional environment. (The rescue shell doesn't have, for example,
> "du", which is useful in this circumstance).
>
> After rebooting, I began looking for where the big files were and I
> found /private/var/folders. It was defined in the negative transcript as
> a directory that radmind should leave alone but, after doing some
> searching, I found that its purpose seems to be userland cache and temp
> files. And that these files are not deleted even when users are deleted
> so, in our context, they can grow almost without limit. I removed it
> from the negative transcript and referenced it in the base transcript --
> this means that the directory will exist, but the contents will be
> removed. After running radmind, it had recovered ~100GB.
>
> Currently OneWeekBackup is set to 15 days. If we start to run into space
> problems, we can reduce it to 8 days. But it seems premature to do so now.
>
> I've made this change on snapper and tested it in the BCRC. But I wanted
> to mention it to you guys before I sync it to wahoo where the change
> will affect your machines.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --
> Steven D. BREWER <sbrewer_at_bio.umass.edu>
> http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/steven-d-brewer
> Senior Lecturer II; Director, Biology Computer Resource Center
> Titolo sen mono--sensignifa sono.
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