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This years ACL is coming up in 2 weeks (Sept 15-17), I did a google calendar of our schedule.

I’ve been wondering for a while where my disc space has gone. My MacBook Pro comes with a 100GB hard drive and it currently had roughly 36GB left of space, now let me make sure you understand that this does NOT include photos, music nor movies, all these reside on a separate external disk and our symbolically linked to the Movies, Photos, Music folders in my home folder. I do have a decent amount of stuff running on the machine, dev tools, darwin ports, applications etc, but I still feel like I had less space than I should.

In comes WhatSize an awesome little utility that goes through all your folders (including the bsd subsystem) and lets you know how much space each is taking. Here I saw some peculiarities, like the var folder taking over 20GB of space. I know the swap file resides in /var/vm but that shouldn’t take that much space, so I start digging and in /var/log/smb I see that I have a 18gb log file. 18GB for 1 log file!, and it is suffixed with .old to boot, so I decided to purge the thing, and I recovered my missing HD space.

After googling around, it seems that SharePoints might be responsible for that much logging output, I am not sure though.

Turn yourself into a Keyboard ninja with this list of OS X Keyboard Shortcuts.