Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today

[KnightWRX]

I don't think so as the installer logs have shown the free space recovery, the Snow Leopard installer log isn't going to calculate the two sizes differently.

Then the Finder numbers should corroborate what you say. What were his finder numbers before and after ? Because it they were 77 and 95, they yes, that installer doesn't take into account the conversion.

 

[xUKHCx]

Then the Finder numbers should corroborate what you say. What were his finder numbers before and after ? Because it they were 77 and 95, they yes, that installer doesn't take into account the conversion.

The installer calculated all of those numbers before and after.

Also if for some bizarre reason it didn't calculating the numbers in the absolute worst case it would still be over 7 gigs with the 9.64GB difference. My other computer installer log reported over 13GB difference which doesn't cut down to half that value.

 

[AidenShaw]

Are there any other OSes that calculate disk space using base 10 instead of 2^10?

I know of at least one....

C:\Windows\system32>dir c:\ /a

 Volume in drive C is Win7 (x64)
 Volume Serial Number is 5850-5725

 Directory of c:\

2009-06-12  20:10    <DIR>          $Recycle.Bin
2009-06-12  21:29             1,024 .rnd
2009-08-09  16:39    <DIR>          Config.Msi
2009-04-22  02:23    <JUNCTION>     Documents and Settings [C:\Users]
2009-08-02  17:22     6,390,267,904 hiberfil.sys
2009-06-20  15:37    <DIR>          MSOCache
2009-06-28  09:22    <DIR>          NVIDIA
2009-09-05  13:53    15,053,864,960 pagefile.sys
2009-04-22  00:16    <DIR>          PerfLogs
2009-08-02  11:52    <DIR>          Program Files
2009-08-05  18:19    <DIR>          Program Files (x86)
2009-08-02  11:52    <DIR>          ProgramData
2009-06-12  20:09    <DIR>          Recovery
2009-09-07  02:43    <DIR>          System Volume Information
2009-06-12  20:09    <DIR>          Users
2009-08-09  16:40    <DIR>          Windows

               3 File(s) 21,444,133,888 bytes
              15 Dir(s)  63,832,944,640 bytes free

C:\Windows\system32>

 

[macswitcha2]

No, you shouldn't. Snow Leopard doesn't calculate "Gigs" the same way Leopard does and as such, just comparing numbers displayed in the Finder doesn't mean squat.

What you want to use is the upper case H option of the df command on leopard. This will use the same calculation method as Snow Leopard :

$ df -H /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 160G 92G 67G 58% /

The lower case h options shows you how leopard does it :

$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 149Gi 86Gi 63Gi 58% /

Snow Leopard frees up about 6-7 gigs. Anything above that is simply because of this conversion that's happening in the way of calculating disk space.

Sorry, I'm not an advanced user, what is the df command on leopard?

 

[Eric S.]

Sorry, I'm not an advanced user, what is the df command on leopard?

Open a terminal session and enter "man df":

The df utility displays statistics about the amount of free disk space on
the specified filesystem or on the filesystem of which file is a part.
Values are displayed in 512-byte per block counts. If neither a file or
a filesystem operand is specified, statistics for all mounted filesystems
are displayed . . .

-H "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to three or less using base 10 for sizes.

-h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
number of digits to three or less using base 2 for sizes.

 

[macswitcha2]

Open a terminal session and enter "man df":

Oh did that...I don't follow what to do next....do I have to type something?

 

[LEStudios]

I just noticed you had the Grab app open in your screen shots. The easier way of taking screen shots imo is just to hit Cmd+Shift+3 for a full screen grab or Cmd+Shift+4 for a marquee selection. It's just quicker and imo easier.

Appreciated that I been doing better without the Grap app!

 

[LEStudios]

Don't over-value IKEA furniture. I have the same desk, except with the wood-like top. It costs about 100$.

Actually the desk is $199 and my Mac mini alone is 4 time the cost of the desk!

http://www.madisonartshop.com/executive-desk44.html

 

[CQd44]

I know of at least one....

Haha, wow. I haven't used cmd in a while. but "my computer" uses 2^10...

 

[Eric S.]

Oh did that...I don't follow what to do next....do I have to type something?

Yes, it was what the previous post said: either "df -H /" or "df -h /"
(without the quotations of course). Do this before and after upgrading and compare.

 

[AidenShaw]

Haha, wow. I haven't used cmd in a while. but "my computer" uses 2^10...

Actually, it uses 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, 2^40 at different times - which is part of the problem....

The "properties" in "My Computer" shows both, like: (context-click on any file or folder, select "Properties")

1.25 TB (1,376,595,562,496 bytes)​

Note the 127 GB "error" with the 1.25 TiB figure.

 

[macswitcha2]

Yes, it was what the previous post said: either "df -H /" or "df -h /"
(without the quotations of course). Do this before and after upgrading and compare.

Thanks...

I did what you instructed and I got..

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 250G 108G 142G 44% /


But, I don't know how to read this...what is it saying?

 

[Eric S.]

Thanks...

I did what you instructed and I got..

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 250G 108G 142G 44% /


But, I don't know how to read this...what is it saying?

Your filesystem is 250GB, you have used 108GB (44% of the total), and you have 142GB remaining.

 

[macswitcha2]

Your filesystem is 250GB, you have used 108GB (44% of the total), and you have 142GB remaining.

I should of known...everything in Western Civilization is linear...

Thanks for the help....not bad!

 

[CQd44]

Actually, it uses 2^10, 2^20, 2^30, 2^40 at different times - which is part of the problem....

The "properties" in "My Computer" shows both, like: (context-click on any file or folder, select "Properties")

1.25 TB (1,376,595,562,496 bytes)​

Note the 127 GB "error" with the 1.25 TiB figure.

D:

That's just confusing.

 

[garrettstech]

Here I am using Snow Leopard in 2022, on a 2007 black macbook.

 

[iHorseHead]

Here I am using Snow Leopard in 2022, on a 2007 black macbook.

I used it for awhile on my old Mac too, because it had only 1GB of RAM.

 

[valkyr]

My old 2008 MacBook Pro still runs it. I really miss the oldschool simplicity and stability.

 

[iHorseHead]

My old 2008 MacBook Pro still runs it. I really miss the oldschool simplicity and stability.

And lets not lie, Snow Leopard looked more futuristic and the modern OS

 

[ocarinas]

And lets not lie, Snow Leopard looked more futuristic and the modern OS

Yes, just look at the application icons at the dock, and the effective and simple user interface. Stylish and timeless, unlike today's empty dull flat messy interface. And it had many practical features, like for example to boot into 64-bit mode, you simply hold down number 6 and 4 during boot.