I was attempting to free up disk space on my MB Pro – and subsequently deleted most of the iPhoto files & folders as I was constantly receing a 'your start up disk is almost full (e.g. 2.5 gb left out of 499 gb available.
So, having done that, my Hard Drive capacity is now showing only a 250 gb capacity – despite there apparently being a Hard Drive & a SSD each with 250gb.
How can I restore it to its full capacity?
Macintosh HD:
Available: 195.88 GB (195,884,195,840 bytes)
Capacity: 250.14 GB (250,140,434,432 bytes)
Mount Point: /
File System: Journaled HFS+
Writable: Yes
Ignore Ownership: No
BSD Name: disk0s2
Volume UUID: 1455A0BF-327D-3453-B82F-C2504F6EF7CC
Physical Drive:
Media Name: APPLE SSD SD0256F Media
Medium Type: SSD
Protocol: PCI
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
Below is the output from diskutil
:
Cathryns-MacBook-Pro:~ cathrynggibson$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 250.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *8.0 GB disk1
1: DOS_FAT_32 NO NAME 8.0 GB disk1s1
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *7.9 GB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 CANON_DC 7.9 GB disk2s1
Best Answer
You have one SSD (disk0) with 251 GB containing one visible volume 'Macintosh HD' (disk0s2) with a capacity of 250.14 GB of which ~54.3 GB are used and 195.88 GB should be free.
Additionally you have 2 devices attached:
If the Finder doesn't show the full free space (195.88 GB) for 'Macintosh HD' or still complains about an 'almost full startup disk' check several answers here at ase:
Why is my startup disk so full?
Finder Reports Disk is Full, Other Tools Don't Account for it
How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?