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Quick question re: available space.
I'm going to be upgrading the drive in my MacBook Pro to a 320gb soon. Tonight I decided to try the clone process on a 320gb desktop drive I have laying around. I connected the drive to my MBP via usb bridge, and proceeded to clone the existing 120gb drive to the 320. Once the clone was complete I booted to it to verify it's contents, everything is there of course. However, in finder I'm getting conflicting results about how much space is available. If I click on the drive itself, there is 212gb available, but if I click on my home folder, documents, music, desktop, or pictures, it shows 164gb available. Why is this? Only the drive and the applications folder show the correct space available.
I can post screen captures if this doesn't make any sense, and my home folder has File Vault enabled, I suspect this has something to do with it. |
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Here's a few shots of what I'm trying to understand. Booted to the "Test" drive.
Hope this helps. |
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Because your Home folder is a FileVault volume with its own size...
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So why doesn't it take advantage of all the available space on the disk? Will it grow at some point and use the rest of the space?
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You'd have to ask Apple that question...
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Ok, I did some digging, turns out the File Vault folder grows dynamically, so when more space is needed it just acquires it.
Thanks for the great program! Edit: or I can turn File Vault off and then turn it back on. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303617 Last edited by AuroraProject; 02-22-2008 at 02:12 PM. |
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