Macbook Pro hard drive free space missing?

[Sammer46]

G'day everyone, first time user of this forum and I would like to thank everyone in advance for helping me. Today, I tired to partition my hard drive in Disk Utility but the application frooze and now I am missing about 90 gb's of space on my hard drive. I'm really confused, and I've had a look on other sites but can't find anything helpful. The Disk Utlility log is pasted below; Thanks!


2011-09-04 13:00:01 +1000: Disk Utility started.

2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Preparing to partition disk: “Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02 Media”
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: 2 partitions will be created
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000:
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Partition 1
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Name : “Macintosh HD”
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Size : 254.76 GB
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Do not erase contents
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000:
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Partition 2
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Name : “Macintosh HD 2”
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Size : 64.45 GB
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000:
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Beginning partition operations
2011-09-04 13:01:47 +1000: Verifying the disk
2011-09-04 13:01:48 +1000: Checking file system
2011-09-04 13:01:49 +1000: Performing live verification.
2011-09-04 13:03:03 +1000: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-09-04 13:03:03 +1000: Checking extents overflow file.
2011-09-04 13:03:03 +1000: Checking catalog file.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Checking multi-linked files.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Checking catalog hierarchy.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Checking extended attributes file.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Checking volume bitmap.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Checking volume information.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK.
2011-09-04 13:03:04 +1000: Shrinking the disk
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2011-09-04 13:18:14 +1000: Disk Utility started.
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[gr8tfly]

In Disk Utility, select the disk, then the Partition tab. Can you post a screen shot of the Disk Utility window?

Were you partitioning your startup disk? Therefore, resizing your startup and adding a 2nd?

If so, I would suggest removing the second partition and leave freespace. See if the freespace + the first partition add up correctly (320GB drive?)

 

[Sammer46]

In Disk Utility, select the disk, then the Partition tab. Can you post a screen shot of the Disk Utility window?

Were you partitioning your startup disk? Therefore, resizing your startup and adding a 2nd?

If so, I would suggest removing the second partition and leave freespace. See if the freespace + the first partition add up correctly (320GB drive?)

Thanks for your post. I just figured out how to fix this problem about 30 minutes ago. Also, in Disk Utility there was only the 'Macintosh HD' and no partition. If anyone else has a similar issue, I fixed mine by turning off the computer and turning it back on again, and then holding down command, option ,P and R until you hear the 'start-up sound' twice. Thank you for your help also!

 

[ECUpirate44]

What could 100 GB of "other" possibly be!?

 

[tmagman]

What could 100 GB of "other" possibly be!?
View attachment 311175

The breakdown only includes media and apps if you look at it, so the other 100GB is going to include the OS, documents (iWork, Office, etc.) , and other things. My MBP only shows I have a few GB of 'Apps' but I have a couple of the older Adobe suites installed which don't show up or identified as Apps so they fit into the 'other' category as well.

 

[ECUpirate44]

The breakdown only includes media and apps if you look at it, so the other 100GB is going to include the OS, documents (iWork, Office, etc.) , and other things. My MBP only shows I have a few GB of 'Apps' but I have a couple of the older Adobe suites installed which don't show up or identified as Apps so they fit into the 'other' category as well.

Thanks. What could the 94 GB of backups be?

 

[heisenberg123]

Thanks. What could the 94 GB of backups be?

time machine local snapshots

 

[ECUpirate44]

time machine local snapshots

Normal?

 

[mape2k]

Normal?

yes, it is recommended to use a Time Machine Backup Disk at least of the same size as your HDD.