Reclaim-Purgeable-Space-on-Mac

  1. open terminal
  2. mkdir ~/largefiles
  3. dd if=/dev/random of=~/largefiles/largefile bs=15m
  4. cp ~/largefiles/largefile ~/largefiles/largefile2
  5. repeat step 4 but with a different file name, largefile3, for example
  6. wait for 5 mins, control + C
  7. see message 'disk critically low'
  8. rm -rf ~/largefiles/