Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!bdest From: bdest@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Benoit Desjardins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: VANISHED! 12 Mb on a 80 Mb Hard Disk Keywords: hard disk space missing Message-ID: <26296@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 28 Jul 90 16:48:25 GMT References: <1990Jul24.202754.13288@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <3022@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1990Jul26.133922.17987@cec1.wustl.edu> <841@earth.cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: bdest@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Benoit Desjardins) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services Lines: 8 we had the same problem in our lab. We made a file by file backup on tape, reformatted the hard drive, and restored the files. By this process, we gained back 20 Megs on a 80 megs hard drive. Benoit Desjardins P.S. We were not using DiskExpress