Using Multiman lost me 200 GB of space

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Emeralda

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I was using FTP to move some files over to the PS3 because they were too big for my external hard drive to hold as a FAT32 device but Winscp kept asking me for my username over and over again cancelling the process and now multiman and the PS3 itself is saying I only have 300 GB free on a 500 GB drive and I know I had more space than that before trying to move this 8 GB file. Does anyone have any tips for this?
 
After dealing every other game on my hard drive, I now have 409/465 GB and I'm honestly not sure where the other fifty gigabytes went! Please help!
 
If at some point you have some file transfer interrupted like that, the first thing you need to do is to enter recovery menu and use the option "restore filesystem", this checks and repairs the filesystem, and eventually it could recover hdd space

But you are never going to have the full 500gb of that hdd availables... there are some gb lost because how the internal hdd filesystems works, there is also some addional space reserved by the PS3, 2gb dedicated to a cache partition, etc...

In total i dont remember how to calculate how much space is lost, but is proportional to the hdd size
The biggest the hdd... the most space is lost
 
sandungas said:
If at some point you have some file transfer interrupted like that, the first thing you need to do is to enter recovery menu and use the option "restore filesystem", this checks and repairs the filesystem, and eventually it could recover hdd space

But you are never going to have the full 500gb of that hdd availables... there are some gb lost because how the internal hdd filesystems works, there is also some addional space reserved by the PS3, 2gb dedicated to a cache partition, etc...

In total i dont remember how to calculate how much space is lost, but is proportional to the hdd size
The biggest the hdd... the most space is lost
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I know some space is lost hense why the PS3 says 465 GB instead of 500 GB like the drive actually is but within that 465, I'm missing roughly 54 GB of space which is bad when I wanna have as much space for games as I can!
 
You have misunderstood me, windows or any OS will only allow you to use 465GB of a 500GB drive, the PS3 will reserve another 8%, so you should expect to have approx 425GB.

So basically you are missing 16GB approx.
 
I have not checked the tmp folder but will do that now! As for what Devil said, are you telling me that even a completely blank PS3 will never say 465/465 GB remaining? Just wanna be sure I'm understanding things correctly!
 
So you are meant to have 425GB that is if you have used NOTHING, But we know that dev_hdd1 partition and dev_flash/dev_flash2 are on the hdd too, so that is another 2.5GB approx. So now you are only missing 13.5GB from 500GB, that is if you have no apps/games installed.
 
Emeralda said:
I have not checked the tmp folder but will do that now! As for what Devil said, are you telling me that even a completely blank PS3 will never say 465/465 GB remaining? Just wanna be sure I'm understanding things correctly!
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Correct, 8% will be reserved by the ps3 plus some more for other partitions. You are missing about 13GB I would say.
 
DeViL303 said:
So you are meant to have 425GB that is if you have used NOTHING, But we know that dev_hdd1 partition and dev_flash/dev_flash2 are on the hdd too, so that is another 2.5GB approx. So now you are only missing 13.5GB from 500GB, that is if you have no apps/games installed.
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I do not have any games installed at all, I uninstalled all of them in order to make sure it wasn't a bad game install or something like that and yet, I'm still missing space since if what you said is correct, I'm missing like 16 GB and nothing is left to delete/uninstall.
 
Emeralda said:
I do not have any games installed at all, I uninstalled all of them in order to make sure it wasn't a bad game install or something like that and yet, I'm still missing space since if what you said is correct, I'm missing like 16 GB and nothing is left to delete/uninstall.
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If there is nothing on there just format it.

You are missing 13GB approx. Not 16GB as there are multiple partitions on a PS3, you are only seeing free space on dev_hdd0 when you check it on the XMB.
 
yes, you will lose some space. the true hdd space (what it says on the box) won't be available. and, on top of that, you'll have the system reserve so much space for the vflash and cache. it sucks, especially considering some games are nearly 50GBs.
 
I think the vita works like that as well. pkgs are stored in the bgdl (background downloader?) folder, then while installing, they're stored in a tmp folder before being placed in their correct location. I know it does this with qcma (full system backup in tmp folder on the pc) at least, so that's why I assume the missing GBs could be in there on your ps3.
 
We have gone from 200GB lost, to 50GB lost, to 16GB lost, to 13GB lost, and the console has not been formatted. Have you removed all data in game data utility? Have you checked that these folders are completely empty
  • dev_hdd0/game/
  • dev_hdd0/GAMES/
  • dev_hdd0/GAMES/
  • dev_hdd0/PS3ISO/
  • dev_hdd0/PS2ISO/
  • dev_hdd0/PSXISO
  • dev_hdd0/PSPISO
  • dev_hdd0/packages/
  • dev_hdd0/plugins/
Also check in dev_hdd0/tmp for partial pkg downloads in folders like downloader, and np_pkg. Then there could be savedata.

TBH the easiest way is just to quick format it if you have nothing on there.
 
How do I do a quick format exactly? Also, I apologize for any inconveniences, I just got worried because I don't know how this extra space got taken up and if it was a problem with moving the big game files via FTP then I was worried about what might happen if I was to get a bigger game and try to put it on there only to waste alot of space in the process.
 
Go to Settings > System Settings > Format Utility > Format System Storage > Quick Format

Just tested on one of my consoles, It has a 1TB drive, which equals 931GB usable. After a format i have 828GB. So i lose 103GB (over 10%), if you lose 50% of that it will be 51.5GB lost.

465GB - 51.5GB = 413.5GB

minus 2.5Gb for other partitions like dev_hdd1 etc = 411GB, so you were missing approx 2GB, that if there were no system files on the hdd, so in reality its even less than that.
 
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