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caaronbrown - Jul 23, 2005 - 5:37 pm
To whom it may concern,
I am puzzled by conflicting information about the amount of free space on my external hard drive.
I have a G5 iMac with an 80GB internal hard drive and a 250GB Maxtor external hard drive. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.2.
The external hard drive has three partitions. One has a capacity of 140GB, which I use for backups. The second is a bootable volume with Mac OS X 10.4 installed, and has a capacity of 28.4GB. The third has a capacity of 65.4GB.
My question has to do with the first partition, which has a capacity of 140GB, as I said above. Using GetInfo in the finder, it appears that I have used 106.95GB of space on the partition, and have 33.67GB of available space. But looking at the folders on the partition, it appears that I have used only around 40GB.
In other words, there should be around 100GB of available space.
I have also examined the partition using a program called WhatSize, and it returns the same information.
Any ideas what's going on here?
Thanks,
Chris Brown
I am puzzled by conflicting information about the amount of free space on my external hard drive.
I have a G5 iMac with an 80GB internal hard drive and a 250GB Maxtor external hard drive. I am using Mac OS X 10.4.2.
The external hard drive has three partitions. One has a capacity of 140GB, which I use for backups. The second is a bootable volume with Mac OS X 10.4 installed, and has a capacity of 28.4GB. The third has a capacity of 65.4GB.
My question has to do with the first partition, which has a capacity of 140GB, as I said above. Using GetInfo in the finder, it appears that I have used 106.95GB of space on the partition, and have 33.67GB of available space. But looking at the folders on the partition, it appears that I have used only around 40GB.
In other words, there should be around 100GB of available space.
I have also examined the partition using a program called WhatSize, and it returns the same information.
Any ideas what's going on here?
Thanks,
Chris Brown
skapp - Jul 23, 2005 - 7:04 pm
Do the following:
Boot from your OS X Installer. Be sure to use the installer for the version of OS X you have installed. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (or Utilities menu if using Tiger.) After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (3.0.3 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.0.4 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
After the above see if the space reporting hasn't been sorted out. You might consider repairing all the volumes and not just the one. You only need to repair permissions on the startup volume and any others that have OS X installed on them.
Boot from your OS X Installer. Be sure to use the installer for the version of OS X you have installed. After the installer loads select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (or Utilities menu if using Tiger.) After DU loads select your OS X volume from the list on the left, click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (3.0.3 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.0.4 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
After the above see if the space reporting hasn't been sorted out. You might consider repairing all the volumes and not just the one. You only need to repair permissions on the startup volume and any others that have OS X installed on them.
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