RAFST3@vms.cis.pitt.edu (04/23/91)
Here is a question that I recall hearing about, but I don't recall the answer.
I am losing space on my apple 40 meg hard disk, and I don't know where it
is going. If I do a "get info" on the hard disk, it tells me that there is
40,119,296 bytes used in storing 1,139 files. If I "get info" for the 8 folders
in the top level of the hard disk, and add up the numbers, I get 33,340,071
megs. Disk First Aid doesn't seem to do much, and mactools thinks the disk is
o.k. as well.
I understand how small files take up more than they should because of
sector sizes and all that, but 7 megabytes seems a little extreme.
Can anyone help me recover my lost space? (I feel a little bit like
will robinson.....)
Thanks very much,
Read Fritsch
rafst3@vms.cis.pitt.edutvex@milton.u.washington.edu (t@vex) (04/23/91)
In article <87B9659D00FF202205@vms.cis.pitt.edu> RAFST3@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes: >Here is a question that I recall hearing about, but I don't recall the answer. > I am losing space on my apple 40 meg hard disk, and I don't know where it >is going. If I do a "get info" on the hard disk, it tells me that there is >40,119,296 bytes used in storing 1,139 files. If I "get info" for the 8 folders >in the top level of the hard disk, and add up the numbers, I get 33,340,071 >megs. Disk First Aid doesn't seem to do much, and mactools thinks the disk is >o.k. as well. > I understand how small files take up more than they should because of >sector sizes and all that, but 7 megabytes seems a little extreme. > Can anyone help me recover my lost space? (I feel a little bit like >will robinson.....) The only thing I can think of that may be giving you grief is that someone somewhere somehow initialized your hard drive with an enormous a/ux partition. There is a default a/ux partition which is inititialized by Apple's HD setup (the version # escapes me) when you run the app under its default setting rather than the "custom" partitioning available. This partition (from what I've seen, anyway) doesn't exceed around 2 megs. You might run HD setup or a similar initialization utility just to have a look under the hood and see how your hd has been parcelled out. I have no use for a/ux at present and was able to rescue about 1.5 megs. Just a thought.