Apple: Macintosh: Is my hard disk missing space?

Macintosh: Is my hard disk missing space?

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Did you ever wonder why, when you format a 5 GB (5 gigabyte) hard disk volume, you only have about 4.7 GB of free space available on the disk in the Finder, instead of the full 5 GB? Or why System Profiler states that the volume size is 4.7 GB but available space is only 4.3 GB?

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