PB hard drive space trouble

[jamescwarren]

I have a 1.33 GHz 15" PowerBook G4 that I think was released last year in April. I got mine in May last year and just a few days ago, I downloaded some freeware and shareware and the Apple installer opened as usual. But then when I got to the bit where it asks you where you want to install your applications, again, it came up with my Macintosh HD as usual but this is what it said ">4 GB Free". I didn't quite understand that so I checked up and in actual fact I have 19.56 GB left. If this is a problem with my hardware does it mean that I am only going to be able to now install only 4 GB of software because I really wouldn't be happy about that. And don't think about Apple Care because I don't have it. Please Help. I am leaving at six o clock. P.S. If you have a solution please go through it slowly because I'm good at working the computer, but not going deep inside it; letalone the os!

 

[yellow]

Open /Applications/Utilites/Terminal.app and type in:

df

Hit Return, and then post the results (please put them in code tags, that means click on the # in the forum post editor and paste the results between the

 boxes).  It'll look something like this:

[CODE]yellow% df
Filesystem              512-blocks      Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk2s9             234419560 182404376  51503184    78%    /
devfs                          214       214         0   100%    /dev
fdesc                            2         2         0   100%    /dev
<volfs>                       1024      1024         0   100%    /.vol
/dev/disk3s3             119840976     71920 119769056     0%    /Volumes/Foo3
/dev/disk0s3             119840976  31814048  88026928    27%    /Volumes/Foo-Clone
/dev/disk1s3             234179424 227273976   6905448    97%    /Volumes/Foo2
automount -nsl [220]             0         0         0   100%    /Network
automount -fstab [231]           0         0         0   100%    /automount/Servers
automount -static [231]          0         0         0   100%    /automount/static
/dev/disk4s1               1022432     46032    976400     5%    /Volumes/NIL

 

[jeremy.king]

Last I checked 19.56GB > 4

I think the installer was just telling you that you have "> 4 GB free."

 

[lordj4000]

I have a 1.33 GHz 15" PowerBook G4 that I think was released last year in April. I got mine in May last year and just a few days ago, I downloaded some freeware and shareware and the Apple installer opened as usual. But then when I got to the bit where it asks you where you want to install your applications, again, it came up with my Macintosh HD as usual but this is what it said ">4 GB Free". I didn't quite understand that so I checked up and in actual fact I have 19.56 GB left. If this is a problem with my hardware does it mean that I am only going to be able to now install only 4 GB of software because I really wouldn't be happy about that. And don't think about Apple Care because I don't have it. Please Help. I am leaving at six o clock. P.S. If you have a solution please go through it slowly because I'm good at working the computer, but not going deep inside it; letalone the os!

I think it means: Size (greater than) 4gb. Your fine.

Edit: kingjr beat me to it.

 

[yellow]

Cheers to me to TOTALLY misreading the original post. <kudos to me>

 

[jamescwarren]

This is what it said:

Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s3 116948016 82497896 33938120 71% /
devfs 199 199 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
<volfs> 1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [232] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [236] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [236] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
James-Warrens-Computer:~ jameswarren$

 

[yellow]

Well, anyway, as noted, you have no space problems.

 

[jamescwarren]

thanks everyone