Free Space information mismatch in macOS and Windows

[Danish297]

Hi,

It's very strange, how the same partition shows different utilization in macOS (Ventura) and Windows(Win11).
Within Ventura, it's 23.24GB free and in Windows 11 it's 113MB free only.
Any explanation/solution will be much appreciated.

 

[silkroadonsale]

Hi,

It's very strange, how the same partition shows different utilization in macOS (Ventura) and Windows(Win11).
Within Ventura, it's 23.24GB free and in Windows 11 it's 113MB free only.
Any explanation/solution will be much appreciated.

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b/c macOS able to see other files system from other OS on other hand Windows only able see it own files system. that's why you only see the free space

 

[Edhawk]

Possibly Windows is only showing the free space from the FAT32 EFI partition. As it can't natively read and write APFS or HFS+ partitioned drives.

 

[Danish297]

Hi All,

thnx 4 giving some time to check this issue.

I fixed it, and below are the details:

"Over allocation" was done by macOS which can be fixed with the below command.

sudo fsck_apfs -y -o /dev/rdisk8s1
sudo fsck_apfs -y -o /dev/rdisk8