Got Leopard and a problem

I got Leopard yesterday and while the OS is nice and working fine, for some reason it says that my hard drive only has 284mb free on it when all I did was reformat the drive and installed Leopard, no downloading, nothing, and apparently I have 284 mb left on the HD.

I am going to try and reformat again and re install Leopard. Thoughts on what this could be?

 

Could you post a screenshot?

 

Go to disk utility.
It should have your disk on the left. Does that show more than 1 partition? If it doesn't, select the drive. And then select partition.
It may not have been partitioned properly. You may have only had a partition for the size of leopard and a large amount of unused space that can be combined to the "initial" partition. See if you can screen shot that and post it.

 

I did that, and it only shows 1 partition that is 111.47 GB. How can I check if it can be combined to the initial partition?

 

Also, it says "This is the startup volume, it cannot be erased. Size: 111.5 GB

 

odd. why dont you post a cmd-shift-4 screenshot on here for us to see....something like this




edit: very odd issue here too. Leopard on my machine has taken my 200gb 7k200 down to the screenshot in total size.

it created its own partition scheme when i told it to do only one>... it seems to be 18GB in size, and i have NOT used bootcamp on this install.


Im an not the OPer, so his problem may/may not be similar

 

Wow I did not know that feature...thanks for that.

Anyway here are the screen shots. Hopefully Ive done something wrong that one of you can identify. Again, I have done absolutely nothing in terms of downloading or transferring of music/movies, although I have tried and it failed because of no room.

 

are you sure you did an Erase and Install? I am sure you did, but I think you best bet is to just do what you had planned, reformat and reinstall and see if you get the same results.

 

Yeah, I did erase and install, which I am hoping erases the hard drive and then installs Leopard.

 

Wow... thats pretty crazy. Let us know what happens when you reformat and reinstall.

BTW, had you used time machine?

 

nope, didnt even touch it.

Kind f off topic but, can someone explain what file vault does? It encrypts my data, does that mean other users cant access it or something?

 

That's not really Off Topic. If you have FileVault Turned On that could actually be the cause of this issue. IMO, FileVault is worthless and should not be used. If that is the case, reformatting and reinstalling OS X is a good solution.

Mac OS X: FileVault-protected Home shows less capacity than what's available on the hard disk

Turning off FileVault (OS X 10.5)

 

Alright, reformat and reinstall did the trick...working flawlessly now. thanks for the help, rep added to all.

 

good to hear, thanks for reporting back.

 

I had a similar problem, it turned out there was a problem with the iDisk sync in dotmac. Turned sync off and it sorted things.