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I have a neigbour’s iMac that does not boot up, because the hard drive is 100% full. It’s a Fusion drive. It boots up fine in recovery mode, the drives seem ok. There in terminal I deleted some large files, but this does not seem to free up space so it can boot again. Any ideas anyone besides re-installing? Is there a way to „vacuum“ a Fusion Drive so it exposes the free space?

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@gernot Maybe there are snapshots which occupy the space? You should be able to list an delete them either with diskutil or tmutil

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@gernot At least in macOS Sonoma there is diskutil apfs listSnapshots and diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot. And according to this site it was already there in Monterey (“[and] have apparently been there for some years”): https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/09/disk-utility-now-has-full-features-for-managing-snapshots/

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