114GB went missing? Macbook Pro help! Ghost files??

[Finn91]

I am actually discussing another missing space issue with another person on the MBA subforum and it's given me my last thought before I have to admit defeat

Can you tell me what this gives you?

ls -al /Volumes/

This will list the contents of your Volumes directory.

hahaha welp:

total 12
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Jan 4 06:10 .
drwxrwxr-x 30 caitlinfinn91 staff 1088 Jul 13 01:20 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 4 06:10 Macintosh HD -> /
dr-xr-xr-x 10 caitlinfinn91 staff 1380 Mar 21 2011 Sims3EP04

 

[theSeb]

Ok, well I am afraid I have to admit defeat on this one. I am sorry that I couldn't help. I guess it wouldn't hurt if you ran Verify Disk.

 

[Finn91]

Ok, well I am afraid I have to admit defeat on this one. I am sorry that I couldn't help. I guess it wouldn't hurt if you ran Verify Disk.

hahaha I think that actually detected the lost memory.
but it says to insert the snow leopard disk so it can repair. this will wipe my computer, correct?
I dont have time machine, I suppose I no choice but to get it now huh?


message I got:
This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.

and:
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 31580055 instead of 3581091)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.

 

[thundersteele]

I dont have time machine, I suppose I no choice but to get it now huh?

Every mac has Time Machine. You just need an external backup disc to be able to use it

 

[theSeb]

You should have a backup anyway. However you can do the repair disk and the risk of losing your data is minimal, but it is there.