Disk Utility short-changed me by 20GB

I partitioned my new Time Machine external drive exactly as per the log below. Upon inspection of the drive afterwards, partition 1 is indeed 455GB but partition 2 is only 10GB instead of the 30GB requested (and delivered according to the log). Anyone know where the missing 20GB went? I double checked that I hadn't asked for any free space to be left on the drive. Disk utility says that the total space on the drive is 465GB (is this right for a 500GB drive?) but in this case, why did it allow me to create partitions of 455 and 30GB? It's annoying because the 30GB was the only size I specified since I was happy to leave the remainder to TM. Now it looks as though I will have to erase and start over (having already done one TM backup), putting the 30GB partition at the top so that Disk Utility doesn't mess with it...
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Preparing to partition disk: “LaCie”
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] 2 volumes will be created
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408]
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Partition 1
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Name : “TM”
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Size : 455.0 GB
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Filesystem : Mac OS Extended
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408]
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Partition 2
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Name : “OX”
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Size : 30 GB
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Filesystem : Mac OS Extended
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408]
22/12/2007 18:42:36 Disk Utility[26408] Creating partition map.
22/12/2007 18:42:50 Disk Utility[26408] Formatting disk2s2 as Mac OS Extended with name TM.
22/12/2007 18:42:55 Disk Utility[26408] Formatting disk2s3 as Mac OS Extended with name OX.
22/12/2007 18:42:58 Disk Utility[26408] Partition complete.
Simon

The size discrepancy has been a well know issue since hard drives were invented. Manufacturers say a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes. The computers say a megabyte is 1,024,000 or 1,048,576 bytes. Add 3 more zero's for GB's. The larger the drive, the larger the loss.
The same goes for DVD's that say they are 4.7 GB, but only hold 4.3 GB.
The math doesn't agree, and the Manufacturers get to advertise a larger size...
Your telling your computer to partition a 465 GB hard drive and use 485 GB to do it. Something's gotta give

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Joe from MD wrote:
Hello.
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Thanks
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Greetings William,
Not one of my errors is on that list!
I am more concerned about the ones that start with "User" then I am of the others.
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I had called Apple last week about the original errors and was told that the new update would resolve my issues; however, as you can see not only did it NOT resolve the original errors but created several new ones!
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Basically the following message will include all the above.
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John Fountain wrote:
I believe the problem occurred because I selected Macintosh HD and added another user (myself) to read/write in the disk permission section of the information window, and I also applied that to all enclosed items.
Uh-oh. You completely trashed your whole system by doing that. Boot up from your Leopard DVD and restore that last Time Machine backup that was made before you made that mistake. If you don't have any backups you will have to reinstall Leopard.
I did this in the first place because of repeated attempts and failuire to install the latest version of skype into my applications folder (being told that I didn't have enough permissions to complete the overwrite task).
When that happens, just trash the old application first, then drag in the new one.
When I tried verifying the disk I received the error message "ERROR: could not freeze volume permissions denied"
I switched users to a specific administrator account that I reserve for troubleshooting, but got the same result when I tried running disk utility.
Changing permissions on the HD and applying to enclosed items hosed your whole system. That's what's causing all your problems. It's doubtful that you will be able to repair it. Restore your system from backup, or reinstall.

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Using disk utility to change the size of the partitions on the hard drive results in all your data being lost. You can reformat with a free partition.
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Looks bad. I would strongly advise backing up the stuff on the other two partitions as soon as possible in case the rest of the drive goes wrong.
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See http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/

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You wrote: "It's definitely formatted for windows...I have Disk Warrior, but it doesn't see my drive "DiskWarrior only works on disks in Mac OS formats, e.g. "Mac OS Extended" (aka HFS Plus or HFS+), "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)." It won't fix disks in MS-DOS/FAT32 format.
There are PC-specific disk utilities, akin to DiskWarrior for Mac, so if you have a PC as well, a PC disk utility might help repair the directory corruption if run from a PC.
External drives, whether they're formatted for PCs or Macs, can be subject to the same causes of directory corruption discussed in See my "Data corruption and loss: causes and avoidance" FAQ. Some of those causes have nothing to do with hardware failure and many are preventable.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
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I previously split my disk into two different disks, however I want to combine them together again, yet i was unable to delete the second partition. I can't delete partition in disk utility, it keeps telling me that "the changes are too small"
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