Re: Help: Disk full after aborted Free Space Erase
- From: Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:15:19 +0100
In article <marc.heusser-5D04C8.06554921112005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Marc Heusser <marc.heusser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Wanted to erase free space on my Powerbook's hard disk (so that deleted
> files cannot be recovered). It had more than 20 GB free.
> It stopped, because the disk was full (200 kB left !), I quit Disk
> Utility despite the warning.
> Now even after restarting I only have 600 MB free - how do I recover the
> free space I had before?
What I have tried up to now (and did not work):
Restarted Powerbook in single user mode, ran fsck.
Repaired permissions.
This is from the log file of Disk Utility:
**********
Nov 21 00:01:15: Disk Utility started.
Preparing to secure free space : ³Untitled²
Creating Temporary File
Securely erasing file
**********
I had force quit Disk Utility.
Does it create a huge file? If so, what is its name (so I can delete it
from terminal)?
It scares me to have only 600 MB free on the disk, running Unix.
TIA
Marc
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