On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here's what I did... >> 1 500gb drive, 2 partitions, I went to delete one of the partitions, then >> "erase free space"... now it says it's full? where before there was only >> 30gb on it? I'm either going nuts or did something stupid here? any ideas? >> Jeff >> > > What machine ? Google your machine with the search term hard drive limit > or search the LEM machine profiles. Some machines have system access limits. > You can also search the LEM archive for info on your machine. Did it ever > really see the half Terrabyte ? > > G5 2.3 Power Mac (early 2005) > > > > Solved. for some reason, a folder named "recovered items" was put in the > trash when I "erased free space" that was 463 gb in size maxing out the HD, > googled around, emptied the trash.... bingo! Jeff > > _____________________________________ > I don't think G5s have any such a limit as I had referred to earlier. It probably only put a reference string in the trash or it would have been a while actually moving content. Bruce will delineate the mixup. -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com /in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ http://twitter.com/FluxStringer http://mog.com/FluxMuse -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
