Why am I missing hard drive space???

[Mulder]

I have deleted everything off my ps 3. Games and music and everything. But my ps 3 says I have 47 out of 55 gb available. What happened to the other 8 gb? Any ideas?

Apologies if this has been asked before

[Leopold BUTTERS]

In needs space for the ps3 itself and for the stuff the ps3 needs to actually run.

[The Lion King]

I have a 40 gig PS3 and with nothing on it at all, it still says something like 37 gig as the max storage space. As Butters said, it needs space for stuff to run.

[jw]

defraging may help(not sure if this can be done on a pS3)

plus ever notice a how a memory stick says 1gb but actually is less? I think its the format its using to store info

[atoal]

i heard that the companies consider a GB as 1000 MB but computers and everyone else consider GB to be 1024 MB, plus there is the other two reasons as well, the ps3 OS takes up space

[Mulder]

But does the operating system take up a whole 8gigs worth? I have a 60g ps3 and it says my maximum storage is 55g. But with everything gone it says 47 out of 55 available. And isn't the OS installed in flash memory?

[The Lion King]

Originally Posted by Mulder

But does the operating system take up a whole 8gigs worth? I have a 60g ps3 and it says my maximum storage is 55g. But with everything gone it says 47 out of 55 available. And isn't the OS installed in flash memory?

Have you tried formatting the PS3? Since it deletes everything on the PS3 that isn't required to run it, you should see clearly if your PS3 is taking up all that space. You might've accidently put a really huge file on there and cannot access (okay, that's very unlikely, but still possible).

[chchau]

my 60gb is the same
after all the 1024mb =1gb and all it turns out to be 55gb rounded

but mine was 48gb left, basically the same

i think it just takes up the 7-8gb for the ps3 os and also hdd space to buffer and all the mumbo jumbo that goes on.

i put in a 250gb and it said i had 230gb of space and then 221 availible of free space.

[richieb1971]

Same here, put 320GB drive in my system and I have 298GB available to use. Its got a lot to do with the drive itself I think. A PS3 OS doesn't go from 8GB to 22GB when you put a bigger drive in.

[BlackLightShark009]

Cause the OS is on there....aside from whatever FW updates you have downloaded. Or you can always stop putting porn on your systems lol. J/P

[MOONPHASE]

ps2 memory cards are actually 7,998kb i know it doesnt relate to the ps3 ok well maybe somewhat it does but anyways just trying to prove a point

[Marquoz]

Silly question, but did you delete all the stuff that the games might have downloaded/saved on your hard drive? That took up huge chunks of my hard drive when I moved to a new one.

[richieb1971]

Its nothing to do with whats on your HDD, its the spec of the HDD itself. I don't know of any HDD which gives you exactly whats advertised. The bigger the drive, the more that will be eaten by some twilight zone reason.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by atoal

i heard that the companies consider a GB as 1000 MB but computers and everyone else consider GB to be 1024 MB, plus there is the other two reasons as well, the ps3 OS takes up space

seems theres a lot of confusion and misinformation in this thread. youre correct. they count 1000mb as a gig, when in reality 1gb is 1024 mb

[Mulder]

Originally Posted by Marquoz

Silly question, but did you delete all the stuff that the games might have downloaded/saved on your hard drive? That took up huge chunks of my hard drive when I moved to a new one.

You talking about the game data file right? Yeah, that's all deleted. If the OS is taking up that space then it won't help formatting right? Format doesn't delete the OS which menas I'll still only have 47 gig. Not that I'm complaining, I'm just wondering what the rest of the space is used for. I mean, if I delete something off my ps3 then it is deleted for good right? Or does it leave files on the drive for some strange reason?

[dk3dknight]

Well you lose some to fat32, you know the partion tables, there not 1:1
never will be.

File Allocation Tables... in Fat32 I think you lose 4 bits for ever 32 bits, which may not seem alot but that becomes greater with greater sizes.

To learn more about File Allocation Tables you mind find what wiki has on it interesting if not well yahoo or google or whatever you use can be most beneficial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32

[Mulder]

Does the ps3 become fragmented? I read somewhere that it doesn't? Anyone know?

[chnandler_bong]

Originally Posted by Mulder

Does the ps3 become fragmented? I read somewhere that it doesn't? Anyone know?

Since I haven't seen a way to do a defrag, hopefully the OS cleans up after itself like some UNIX OSs.

[xtop]

nobody has tried to run a defrag utility from linux?

[chnandler_bong]

Originally Posted by xtop

nobody has tried to run a defrag utility from linux?

That would only work on the disk space allocated to the Linux OS and not in the PS3 OS disk space.

I guess you could try to mount the PS3 partition while running the Linux OS, but I can't say whether or not Linux will be able to read the PS3 partition.