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FireWire drive says i copied 30 gigs of files from a 10 gig hard drive onto it?! HOW!
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Sep 18, 2001, 02:37 PM
 
Thats right, it says that I have 30 gigs on it. I copied all the files that were on it off of my Hard drive...
Another thing, office WAS 200 megs on my Ti Hard Drive, it now show up as 10 gigs on the Firewire...

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Sep 18, 2001, 11:50 PM
 
Perhaps the FW drive is really large and formatted as regular HFS (rather than HFS+) and has a block size that is four or eight times as large as that on the 10GB drive? Then if the mean file size is small and leaves a big chunk of the new block size open ...

Hmm. That's all I can come up with for now.
     
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Oct 8, 2001, 08:34 PM
 
That is correct. The problem is that the HD is not formatted in HFS+. Reformat the HD and you will be able to fit a lot more stuff.
     
   
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