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Re: it¡¯s like a horror movie: my system files have eaten up my boot drive!

 

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On Nov 1, 2019, Daniel Settles wrote:
Otto has you on the right track but here's a screen capture of my?
Terminal window. ?I just deleted the first snapshot in the list.

Once you see the list of snapshots in Terminal do the delete command .
. . .

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots

Press Spacebar once after deletelocalsnapshots and copy/paste the date
part only from ONE of the listed snapshots.

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 1019-18-31-115431

I just discovered something that even Dan and Otto might not know.

I was wondering if listing successive dates would allow me to delete multiple local snapshots in a single command (answer: no).

As usually happens in Terminal when you try something not allowed, I got a short lesson on command format:

Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots [<mount_point> | <snapshot_date>]

Meaning, ¡°a single date, OR the mountpoint¡±

So I tried:

Usage: tmutil deletelocalsnapshots /

And successfully deleted ALL the local snapshots at that mountpoint with a single command.

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Jim Saklad
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