New UFS volume already using 1.35 GB after reformat

[Marcus K]

Hi.

I recently installed Mac OS X Tiger on an iBook G4 with a 27.9 GB hard disk drive. I have always used Mac OS Extended, but I wanted to try UFS. After erasing the drive using UNIX File System as volume format, I noted that 1.35 GB was already in use.

I connected the computer to an external drive and booted into Mac OS X. Finder told med the same thing as Disk Utility. I used Terminal, but even when using ls -la on the UFS volume, I couldn't find any large files.

What is those 1.35 GB used for, and where are they?

 

[Thinine]

Who knows. Just go back to HFS+ (Journaled), it's faster anyway.

 

[sfisher]

Interesting. Does df -h from a terminal prompt tell you that much is used also? As root, going to the root directory (/) and doing du -sh * will show how much is used in each directory.

 

[Marcus K]

Who knows. Just go back to HFS+ (Journaled), it's faster anyway.

I know. I went back to HFS+ (case-sensitive of course), but I might try UFS on one of my other Macs.

 

[Cromulent]

I know. I went back to HFS+ (case-sensitive of course), but I might try UFS on one of my other Macs.

Any particular reason you went with a case sensitive file system rather than the standard option?