At 10:59 AM -0700 1/3/2012, Bill Brown wrote:
Kingston Data Traveler 8 GB Thumb Drive.
Format is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Capacity: 7.67 GB
Available: 7.64 GB
Used: 30.1 MB on disk.
Only 1 partition on this disk, the main one.
Question: I have completely erased this puppy a few times in a row. Why would
it still show as having 30 MB still on it? I can understand maybe
showing a MB for
a directory or something, but 30 MB seems like a lot to me. What is
all this extra
data?
The partition map, allocation tables, and the empty file system on
the mountable volume all take up space. There could also be a number
of bad blocks mapped out. And then there's the spotlight indices.
30 MB on a 7 GB "drive" is about right.
- Dan.
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