Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full : How to solve?

[hbaromega]

I am getting the message "Your Startup Disk Is Almost Full" frequently. I checked my disk space and removed some files from the /home. Now

df -h

command shows the following on the terminal :

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1     112Gi  107Gi  4.2Gi    97% 28231154 1090572   96%   /
devfs          185Ki  185Ki    0Bi   100%      641       0  100%   /dev
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /home

Seems that map auto_home is still 100% and hence I'm still getting the message. How to get rid of it?

 

[smithrh]

Keep deleting files you don't need, or get an external drive and move files there.

Running a disk that close to full isn't a good practice.

 

[hbaromega]

Keep deleting files you don't need, or get an external drive and move files there.

Running a disk that close to full isn't a good practice.

That's alright. But still it may not answer the actual issue. Two things:

1) What the heck is "map auto_home"? Where can I find it through the terminal of finder?

2) I removed a lot again. But whenever I'm trying to update, my hard drive is getting is filled up. Also I'm not successful in updating since it demands more disk space.

 

[smithrh]

You may have an app that's creating massive log files for some reason, or an app that's creating other files and taking up space as fast as you can delete files.

 

[F1Mac]

1) What the heck is "map auto_home"? Where can I find it through the terminal of finder?

It's a mount point for NFS servers. Nothing to worry about, and this has nothing to do with your disk being almost full. You just have to get rid of a lot of files or copy them to another drive.

 

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