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I have a 250 gig HD, the computer is two days old, yet, I now only have 100 gig free?
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 575337" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Disk Utility's zeroing-out-free-space function uses a sparse disk that sometimes stays put if the machine freezes or kernel panics during the zeroing run. Did you zero the free space?</p><p></p><p>That sparse disk takes most of the free space on a disk or partition. It happened to me with Tiger on my G4. I had to boot into OS 9 to access it, and trashed it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 575337, member: 3889"] Disk Utility's zeroing-out-free-space function uses a sparse disk that sometimes stays put if the machine freezes or kernel panics during the zeroing run. Did you zero the free space? That sparse disk takes most of the free space on a disk or partition. It happened to me with Tiger on my G4. I had to boot into OS 9 to access it, and trashed it. [/QUOTE]
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I have a 250 gig HD, the computer is two days old, yet, I now only have 100 gig free?
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