MacOS size weirdness

[Bert Knabe]

on 7/14/02 11:45 PM, astout2@swarthmore.edu at astout2@swarthmore.edu wrote:

> Juan Manuel Palacios <jmpalacios@mac.com> said:
> 
>> And as a side comment to the original poster, regardless of your
>> findings I would *STRONGLY* recommend, as a "Mac support guy", to
> run a 
>> disk utility when such strong discrepancies are found in sizes when
>> reported from different sources. Most of the comments about the
>> difference between file size and disk usage are pretty accurate, to say
>> the least, but I still don't think the numbers will account for THAT
>> difference when put together with the concepts explained.
> 
> But part of what puzzles me is that this is occurring on a /brand new/
> installation.  I just reformatted the whole hard drive and did a basic
> installation off a MacOS 9.1 install CD.  I haven't had time to corrupt
> anything.  =)  Unless you think this indicates some more serious
> problem--corruption in the formatting itself, or (god forbid) some
> physical problem with the disk.  I'm probably going to reformat again
> within the next few days, so it's not like this is an installation I'm going
> to 
> be depending on.  But it is hardware I'll be depending on, and I'd like to
> get to the root of this before I reformat, in case it informs the sizes or
> filesystems I choose...
> 

I've had disks bad out of the box, but your problem sounds more like a
directory error of some sort. I'd really recommend Alsoft's Disk Warrior.

Bert