Where is my hard drive space?

[DolemiteJackson]

I have just upgraded from an iBook 500mhz to a MacBook Pro 2.2ghz. Huge jump in technology.

Anyways, when I look in About this Mac, I have a 111.79 GB Fujitsu hard drive.

jDisk report tells me I'm using 18.9GB of hard drive, and the Finder says I've got

61.07GB left. So where's the missing 31.82 gigs? I did fresh install as soon as I

got this machine. Are there files that don't show up with jDiskreport?

 

[Tallest Skil]

1 GB = 1000 in HardwareManufacturingLand; 1 GB =1024 in OSLand. This is what is happening.

 

[aaronw1986]

1 GB = 1000 in HardwareManufacturingLand; 1 GB =1024 in OSLand. This is what is happening.

No. They are not talking about that. They are not asking why they only see 111 instead of 120.

 

[alphaod]

Right click on your HDD on the desktop and select 'Get Info'

What capacity and space remaining does that report?

 

[Tallest Skil]

No. They are not talking about that.

Funny. That's exactly what they're talking about.

Holy leet post, Batman!

 

[daneoni]

Did you take into consideration the OS install and all subsequent updates?

 

[DolemiteJackson]

Right click on your HDD on the desktop and select 'Get Info'

What capacity and space remaining does that report?

Good idea. This is reporting 50.4 GB being used. It's almost like the install disks

were installed twice. Is there any way to tell if this is so?

 

[daneoni]

Not that im aware of. You might wanna do a reinstallation. By the way are you sure you did an erase & install the first time or an archive and install?

I hear the latter eats up more GBs

 

[bplein]

The old-school side of me suggests:

sudo du / | sort -n | tail -n 100

Which will show you the most filled directories.

But for most people, "Disk Inventory X" is the GUI way to do it. Quicker too. Google it.

 

[alphaod]

Not that im aware of. You might wanna do a reinstallation. By the way are you sure you did an erase & install the first time or an archive and install?

I hear the latter eats up more GBs

If you did the archive and install, you can just delete the folder that says System Old or something time like.

 

[Bobioden]

I found a folder in on my harddrive called Previous System. Is this folder safe to delete?

 

[bplein]

I found a folder in on my harddrive called Previous System. Is this folder safe to delete?

If you are happy with your install, and nothing is broken, then yes, you can delete it. If you still have sufficient space in your system, you can even leave this folder around for a while and then delete it at the point that you REALLY need the space.

 

[alphaod]

I found a folder in on my harddrive called Previous System. Is this folder safe to delete?

Yes. It just contains your old system files; does not contain any applications, documents, etc.