Curious problem regarding reformatting

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somebody041

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So I've had my powerbook for a little over a year now and decided it was time to reformat. I booted up holding C and ran disc utility to erase the harddrive and erase the free space. Now I have reinstalled OSX, but my harddrive space is 11gb less! I have the 120gb harddrive, and when I first installed the operating system back in the day, the computer had 111gb. Now, it has exactly 100gb. Does anybody know where the 11gb went, or how I can recover them?

As always, thank you!
 
somebody041 said:
So I've had my powerbook for a little over a year now and decided it was time to reformat. ...
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FWIW, absent some obvious catastrophic event, there is no need to reformat your harddrive. The most you should ever need to do is to restart your computer in single-user mode and run File System Check (fsck -fy) at the command prompt.
 
A lot of space will go missing with file vault turned on, if you are using file vault try turning it off, restarting and then look at your hard drive space.
Cheers
Jeff
 
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