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Hey all. I'm running out of space on my macbook air. Weirdly, When I go to System Information, it looks like there's a whopping 58GB reserved for "Other". Short returning OS to factory setting, what can I do about that?
On another note, it looks like there's 4GB reserved for a Virtual Machine of some sorts (last line).
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 121.0 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +121.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.1 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 101.1 GB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 84.0 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 528.1 MB disk1s4
*5: APFS Volume VM 4.3 GB disk1s5*
I'd like to know if I can toss that somehow. `diskutil unmount disk1s5` insists that PID 0 (kernel_task) would not like to unmount, much less remove that partition. Looks like it's mounted at /private/var/vm. I'm scared to just try `sudo rm -rf /private`.
On another note, it looks like there's 4GB reserved for a Virtual Machine of some sorts (last line).
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 121.0 GB disk0s2
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +121.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.1 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 101.1 GB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Preboot 84.0 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume Recovery 528.1 MB disk1s4
*5: APFS Volume VM 4.3 GB disk1s5*
I'd like to know if I can toss that somehow. `diskutil unmount disk1s5` insists that PID 0 (kernel_task) would not like to unmount, much less remove that partition. Looks like it's mounted at /private/var/vm. I'm scared to just try `sudo rm -rf /private`.