Available space on 30gb photo is incorrect

I have a 30 GB iPod photo. When I go the Settings > About menu, I see this:
Capacity: 27.8 GB
Available: 27.4 GB
But that's impossible since I have like 704 songs totalling over 4 GB. It's said 27.4 ever since I bought it. I had the same problem with the first iPod I bought (that one broke and I got an identical replacement)

Restore it then reload all the songs. Should cure what is a common software glitch.

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I noticed that my Finder status bar shows incorrect amount of available space. Actually the amount of available space is larger that the actual disk size. The same problem is experienced if I click "Get Info" on my Macintosh HD. It also shows drive capacity as 249.82GB and Available as 252.7GB.
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Currently the Get Info for Macintosh HD shows the following:
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/dev/disk1                          243966468 152025216 91685252    63%    /
devfs                                     181       181         0   100%    /dev
map -hosts                                  0         0         0   100%    /net
map auto_home                               0         0         0   100%    /home
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My 30gb iPod is reporting the capacity and available space at 27.8gb. I currently have 2172 songs on my iPod. iTunes reports the available space at approx 13.5gb. I recently applied the latest updater to my iPod with hopes that this would correct the problem. It did not. I have also restored my iPod back to factory defaults and resynched my library using iTunes.
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remaining memory is on your ipod.
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