removing Printer Drivers resulted in less free disk space

denyar · 12-30-2007, 06:33 PM

To free up space, I ran "sudo rm -rf /Library/Printers" and instead my HDD's free space decreased by 3.18 GB. Does anyone have an explanation for this or an explanation to how to properly remove the printer drivers?

Thanks

hayne · 12-30-2007, 06:35 PM

This might be a symptom of filesystem corruption.
You should do "Repair Disk" (different from "Repair Disk Permissions"!) in Disk Utility when booted from the Install CD/DVD. I.e. you restart from the Install CD/DVD, then run the version of Disk Utility that is available from one of the menus there.
See this Apple doc:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

12-30-2007, 06:33 PM	#1
denyar Prospect Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3	removing Printer Drivers resulted in less free disk space To free up space, I ran "sudo rm -rf /Library/Printers" and instead my HDD's free space decreased by 3.18 GB. Does anyone have an explanation for this or an explanation to how to properly remove the printer drivers? Thanks

12-30-2007, 06:35 PM	#2
hayne Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Montreal Posts: 29,278	This might be a symptom of filesystem corruption. You should do "Repair Disk" (different from "Repair Disk Permissions"!) in Disk Utility when booted from the Install CD/DVD. I.e. you restart from the Install CD/DVD, then run the version of Disk Utility that is available from one of the menus there. See this Apple doc: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214 __________________ hayne.net/macosx.html

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