Hi Folks, it's been a long time since I've been here so apologies if this is the incorrect area of the forums ...
I have a late-2020 Mac Mini (M1) that I got to be a general-purpose computer (email, web, documents, etc.) but have also used it for testing code that I then run on my larger computers. I haven't had an issue until yesterday.
The configuration is a 2TB SSD. Apple’s System Information says my SSD has 380 GB remaining. iStat Menus says 380 GB remaining. Finder says 380 GB remaining. (based on how I keep track of free space, I, also, think it should have about 380 GB remaining) Disk Utility says 49 GB remaining. Sensei says 49 GB remaining. I tried to process data and it didn’t work, saying it could no longer write to the disk — so the Unix interface doesn’t know where 380–49=331 GB is hiding out.
I ran Disk Utility on the boot partition, it was fine. I started to run it on the Data partition, but after waiting about 30 minutes did a hard restart because the entire interface was frozen (it warns that the system will be unresponsive, but even the blue back-and-forth progress bar had frozen, whereas it had run for the boot partition even though it, too, said the UI would be frozen).
I was really hoping that Apple would release updated minis with more RAM at their event, and was going to get it and use this computer as a weather/TV/recipes (in the kitchen) server, and now I'm superstitiously afraid I jinxed it.
Thoughts?
I have a late-2020 Mac Mini (M1) that I got to be a general-purpose computer (email, web, documents, etc.) but have also used it for testing code that I then run on my larger computers. I haven't had an issue until yesterday.
The configuration is a 2TB SSD. Apple’s System Information says my SSD has 380 GB remaining. iStat Menus says 380 GB remaining. Finder says 380 GB remaining. (based on how I keep track of free space, I, also, think it should have about 380 GB remaining) Disk Utility says 49 GB remaining. Sensei says 49 GB remaining. I tried to process data and it didn’t work, saying it could no longer write to the disk — so the Unix interface doesn’t know where 380–49=331 GB is hiding out.
I ran Disk Utility on the boot partition, it was fine. I started to run it on the Data partition, but after waiting about 30 minutes did a hard restart because the entire interface was frozen (it warns that the system will be unresponsive, but even the blue back-and-forth progress bar had frozen, whereas it had run for the boot partition even though it, too, said the UI would be frozen).
I was really hoping that Apple would release updated minis with more RAM at their event, and was going to get it and use this computer as a weather/TV/recipes (in the kitchen) server, and now I'm superstitiously afraid I jinxed it.
Thoughts?