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I also ran Disk Utility (10.4.4 OS X version) from another drive I booted from and the drive was ok. I think many users are not typically checking their system log files' size, and the asl.log is hidden away in /private/var/log.

If the asl.log file grows by ~ 18 Megabytes every time SD is run, that might not work well for me. Does the asl.log file get "recycled" every so often from the daily maintenance jobs? I ran DAILY and it didn't touch the asl.log file, although maybe that's because it wasn't very old. What is the criterion for DAILY to shrink the size of this file?

Another potential workaround -- is there a way to manually prune this asl.log file (which is just lines of text of these messages), say every several days, if it continues to grow like this? I'd hesitate to delete it or anything in /private/var unless I knew it were safe, and I suspect it is open for write during normal operations so doing something to it manually might cause some conflict if not done properly.