[Ti] HD Folders Size Don ¹ t Add Up

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 1/24/04 8:31 AM, Dave Friesen at davefriesen at mac.com wrote:

> Are you saying that all 6GB is used up?
> 
> When you go to the Get Info what does it say under Capacity, Available
> and Used?
> 
> On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:25 AM, S. Moussly wrote:
> 
>> While trying to add up all the folders sizes in my 6 GB partition, I
>> realized that things don't seem to add up.
>> Here is the break down of all the folders on this partition:
>> 
>> Application Folder: 1.41 GB
>> Library Folder: 1.17 GB
>> System Folder: 1.09 GB
>> Users Folder: .41 GB
>> 
>> 1.41+1.17+1.09+.41 = 4.08
>> 
>> 6GB - 4.08 = 1.92 GB (Where are they???)
>> 
>> Any suggestions?

Don't forget that there are invisible files and folders on your disk.

For example, there is /bin/, /cores/, /dev/, /mach.sym, /mach_kernel,
/private/, /sbin/ and /usr/.

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