Reclaimed ~24 GB on the M3 Max by paving a stale 2020 backup + offloading cruft

Receipt disk-reclaim-2026-06-27 · grade green (5/5)
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Loop
manual-disk-reclaim
Owner
Fabian Williams
Actor
copilot-cli
When
2026-06-27T23:30:00-04:00
Status
success
Outcome
free space on /System/Volumes/Data (GB) — 237 GB261 GB
Budget
$0 / cap $0 within cap
Standing rubric
Outcome stated green
Metric: free space on /System/Volumes/Data (GB)
Externally verified green
An external check passed.
Evidence linked green
Has a clickable artifact.
Authority respected green
Stayed in lane; gates honored.
Within budget green
Spent $0 / cap $0.
Verification checks
df free-space delta confirmed external pass
df before 237 GB -> after 261 GB; +24 GB matches sum of offloads
DucatiRides offload count match external pass
8 files / 7.4 G moved to /Offload; source dir gone (stat fails)
Repos byte-for-byte mirror verified external pass
rsync 218,315 files / 15 G; dry-run re-run shows 0 diffs before rm -rf
Documents caches moved external pass
superwhisper 1360 files + Snagit 897 files in /Offload; Documents 3.1G -> 855M
Evidence links
Authority
Destructive deletes happened only after a verified backup existed (remove-the-witness gate honored).
Gated actions: pave backup (user did it himself), each offload mv (user approved), rm -rf only after verified mirror