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Deleting large files
Authored by: gauvins on Dec 07, '07 02:00:21PM
I had a similar problem. Disabling journaling did the trick. In terminal:

To disable journaling for a volume called MyDisk, you would execute:

sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/MyDisk

(quoted from KOVALIK HERE: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=55973)

Delete the offending file(s). To restart journaling, terminal:

sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil enableJournal /Volumes/MyDisk

Looks like if the file is larger than the RAM *and* there is something wrong with it (mine was a video file resulting from an aborted process) there will be a kernel panic.

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