On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mar 10, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Jeffrey Engle <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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 ?
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> G5 2.3 Power Mac (early 2005)
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> 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
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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.


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