Incorrect free space reporting

**BahumatLord** · 02-01-2012,09:33 AM

I know this is a known problem but was hoping someone figured out a solution. I had about 6 gigs free on my internal drive, and needed space for something else so I deleted a 10 gig mkv file in Multiman's file manager. The file's gone, but it still says I only have 6 gigs free. Has anyone figured out how to force the ps3 to rescan the hard drive to get the correct free space reading?

**RUT Dark Ronin** · 02-01-2012,11:45 AM

You could try FS Recovery from recovery menu.

**RUT Dark Ronin** · 02-01-2012,11:47 AM

Otherwise, try to play around with Fake HDD space in QA menu. Activate it, reboot, then deactivate and reboot again. This is just suggestions, since I've never faced any issues like this one. Good luck anyway.

**cerebr_al** · 02-01-2012,05:45 PM

Don't know about that above solution, if you try it and it works post the result.

In my experience this is a chronic problem and can only be solved by reformatting the drive (which I've had to do twice since jb-ing my console).

It is a major pain in the ass!

**BahumatLord** · 02-01-2012,05:56 PM

Originally Posted by cerebr_al

Don't know about that above solution, if you try it and it works post the result.

In my experience this is a chronic problem and can only be solved by reformatting the drive (which I've had to do twice since jb-ing my console).

It is a major pain in the ass!

I wouldn't mind just reformatting, but I don't have enough space elsewhere to backup 1 TB of data and a lot of it has been lost due to file servers going down. I've tried moving stuff around in the file manager to trigger multiman to rescan for content with no luck. I've tried Rebuilding the database in the system recovery menu with no luck. I'm playing around with it and will let you guys know. 10 gigs is 10 gigs and I'm sure that this is not the first time it's happened - just the first time I noticed since it's so close to the end of my free space. There's no telling how much free space is actually lost

**BahumatLord** · 02-01-2012,09:08 PM

Originally Posted by RUT Dark Ronin

Otherwise, try to play around with Fake HDD space in QA menu. Activate it, reboot, then deactivate and reboot again. This is just suggestions, since I've never faced any issues like this one. Good luck anyway.

You hit it on the head. Thanks man. What I did is turned on Fake HDD space in the debug menu, then turned my ps3 off then back on. Just to verify I checked the size of everything on my internal drive. The file I deleted was in my VIDEO folder. It was the only one and shows as being an empty folder. Here's the math if anyone's interested

I have a 1 TB hard drive which after formatting and installing custom firmware only gives me 827 Gigs of useable space (10% is reserved for system use)

CURRENT SIZE OF FOLDERS
2068
459815255651
328321970960
440679290
20659682
691124166
38184000028
262144
1094579170
16087328
920575726
503316480
1208266
62186

current free space (not exact - did a bit calculator conversion of 53.15 gigs)
57069377945.6

grand total or 826.156848194636 GIGs (not exact but close enough - look above)
887079161090.6

Really appreciate the tip

**Cyris** · 02-02-2012,10:33 PM

has your system been bumped cuz it sounds like a CRC error. i had this happen when i dropped an external drive. does it ever fail when copying files onto the drive?

**BahumatLord** · 02-02-2012,10:42 PM

Originally Posted by Cyris

has your system been bumped cuz it sounds like a CRC error. i had this happen when i dropped an external drive. does it ever fail when copying files onto the drive?

No, I've never dropped it and it's never been hit by anything. It's a relatively new drive and I was extremely careful installing it. It's a known problem with multiMAN's file manager. What happened is I deleted the file itself instead of deleting the folder the file was in. For some reason multiMAN doesn't report the change correctly. If you look above the problem's been fixed

**justin8776** · 04-04-2012,03:04 PM

Hi, I'm having this same problem on my Kmeaw 3.55 Slim, but can't for the life of me find the debug/QA menu you guys are talking about to play around with this Free HDD space setting. Sorry, I'm a pretty big newbie, but I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I also did Google this in advance, as well as searched the forums, but had no luck.

**Bahamut2** · 09-04-2012,12:32 PM

Finally someone having this same problem... well i think this is normal but, is it a multiman problem or a CFW problem?
Since i formatted i always delete the files form the FTP client and i dont have any space errors, but deleting from multiman is when you dont get it really deleted...
This problem is there for years, why noone fix this? I don't want it to happen again when deleting something accidentally from multiman :S

And about the Fake Disk fix, how does it really works? Do you need to know the exact fisk space you lost do fake it or it autodetects it?

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