Hi,
I have a 6TB WD External Elements drive and it was formatted to NTFS. I need to format the drive to Fat32 and so I tried doing this but after reformatting it to Fat32 it shows that 4.4TB is used and 1.6TB is free and I cannot figure out why. I have not partition the drive at all. And no Data is on the drive.
I have a 6TB WD External Elements drive and it was formatted to NTFS. I need to format the drive to Fat32 and so I tried doing this but after reformatting it to Fat32 it shows that 4.4TB is used and 1.6TB is free and I cannot figure out why. I have not partition the drive at all. And no Data is on the drive.
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Erasing “WD ELEMENTS” (disk3s2) and creating “WD ELEMENTS”
Unmounting disk
Erasing
512 bytes per physical sector
/dev/rdisk3s2: 3129865984 sectors in 48904156 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=411648 drv=0x80 bsec=3130630144 bspf=382064 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
Mounting disk
Operation successful.
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Volume name : WD ELEMENTS
Volume type : Unknown
BSD device node : disk3s2
Mount point : /Volumes/WD ELEMENTS
File system : MS-DOS (FAT32)
Connection : USB
Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14
Writable : Yes
Is case-sensitive : No
File system UUID : 5F8122C1-9C72-3055-9D30-99D6523392B2
Volume capacity : 6,000,929,144,832
Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 1,602,489,319,424
Purgeable space : 0
Free space : 1,602,489,319,424
Used space : 4,398,439,825,408
Owners enabled : No
Is encrypted : No
System Integrity Protection supported : No
Can be verified : Yes
Can be repaired : Yes
Bootable : No
Journalled : No
Disk number : 3
Partition number : 2
Media name :
Media type : Generic
Ejectable : Yes
Solid state : No
S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported
Parent disks : disk3
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