sarlan Posted March 9, 2002 Report Share Posted March 9, 2002 I restore 1.2 gig from DLT and it occupies 9.3 gig on the destination drive. WHY? I have a new G4 Powerbook to replace the now dead G4 powerbook and I am unable to restore the 7.7 gig to a 30 gig Firewire drive. I need to restore to the firewire drive in order to transport the data from the SCSI tape drive to the non-SCSI G4 Powerbook. If I "Get Info" on the files it shows the the size as: 9.29 gig on disk (1,245,087,409 bytes). I need help please as I need to get the new system up and running in order to get back to work. Thanks! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalRandy Posted March 18, 2002 Report Share Posted March 18, 2002 Rob, I am assuming that you are using a Mac. As a result my first guess is that your firewire drive is not formatted as an HFS+ volume. The minimum allocation block size of a 30Gb drive on a non-HFS+ would be extremely large. This will change the amount of space required to restore your data. I would suggest checking the drive status under the Get Info command from the File menu while in the Finder. If it is not HFS+, you will need to reformat the drive with the software that shipped with your drive, or you can use OS X's disk utility. Drive Setup under OS 9.x will not initialize a firewire drive, at least in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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