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Why does my freshly-formatted disk have 450 MB of data on it?
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Mar 15, 20262889 viewsConfidence Score0%
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The answer is probably obvious, but I'm sure enquiring minds want to know: if I erase a disk and reformat it, what's already taking up almost half a gigabyte of space? In this case, it's formatted HFS+ journaled on Mac OS X.
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Fix for: Why does my freshly-formatted disk have 450 MB of data on it?
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You don't say what make and model disk, how you arrived at it's expected capacity or how you measured actual available capacity - so it could be some or all (or none) of the following: Disk vendors state sizes in powers of 1000, Operating systems re…
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