When I first log in to my mac, the bottom of the finder window shows 28.7 GB available
As soon as I interact with the finder, that changes to 417.35 GB available
About this mac > Storage shows 417.35GB out of 751.07GB
However, in the terminal df shows:
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 1466930136 1408631896 54750856 97% 2915208 9223372036851860599 0%
devfs 368 368 0 100% 638 0 100% /dev
/dev/disk1s4 1466930136 2097200 54750856 4% 1 9223372036854775806 0%
/private/var/vm
map -hosts 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% /net
map auto_home 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% /home
/dev/disk0s1 403218 25912 377306 7% 0 0 100%
/Volumes/firmwaresyncd.UxqR5T
Omnisweeper shows 28.7 GB free, 720.6 GB used, 751.1 GB total
When I am working with certain applications in the terminal, I get errors/warnings about disk space being too low…
I tried booting into safe mode, and the progress bar got to 95% and sat there for… 20 minutes.. I eventually gave up trying to boot into safe mode.
Is there anything I can do to solve this other than formatting my drive and starting over?
I am running Mojave 10.14.3 (18D109) on a mac pro Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012.
Best Answer
My solution was to create a 415GB file and then delete it. Now everything is working fine.