TM drive reformatted but shows 240MB as "used"
Hi. I'm struggling to get TM working seamlessly in the background. I've reformatted my 1TB G-Drive Q and now Disk Utility is telling me that there are still 9 directories with 57 files taking up 240MB of 1TB. I see this information not when I click on the first entry for the drive in Disk Utility, but on the second entry - the Volume, I think? I've tried to erase the information but Disk Utility hangs in the process. The drive has one partition and no directories/files show up when I double-click the drive icon and open its finder window.
Doesn't reformatting a drive erase everything? How can I get rid of these files?
dior
Dior wrote:
Fascinating. Thank you. This is what I got...
Macintosh:~ dior$ ls -aleO@ /Volumes/GDriveQ
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 8 dior dior - 340 Oct 8 22:50 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 5 root admin hidden 170 Oct 9 12:24 ..
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
drwx------ 3 dior dior - 102 Oct 8 22:50 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 3 dior dior - 102 Oct 9 12:24 .Trashes
-rw-r--r-- 1 dior dior - 0 Oct 8 22:50 .com.apple.timemachine.supported
drwx------ 5 dior dior - 170 Oct 9 12:24 .fseventsd
That's fine-those files should be there.
Would you mind explaining what the 'eO@' flags do? I imagine one of them is to show hidden files/dirs? I looked at the man page for 'ls' and got confused...
the -a flag shows all, the -l flag lists in "long" format (with more details), and the -e -O and -@ flags all show some more detailed information about the files.
Is this what you'd expect to see?
Yes-once again, it's completely normal. Don't worry about it.
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