disc utility inconsistent free space
My hard drive reports inconsistent free space using various methods.
When I click "get info" on my Macintosh HD, it reports 18GB free.
When I use disk utility, it reports 7GB free.
After verifying the partition, I ran a disk repair using the disc utility on startup and the free space bumped up to 12GB. Strangely, when I exit startup repair and run disk utility after entering the OS, disk utility still reports 7GB. Re-entering the startup disc utility reports 12GB free space!
My hard drive is an OCZ Vertex II LE 60GB SSD.
Ultimately I am trying to create a partition for bootcamp, but it keeps telling me i have less than 10GB free space. I can understand if "get info" is unable to see certain files due to permissions, but why should disk utility report different values via startup and OS? Is there any way around this so that I can get bootcamp to allow me to create the partition?
Any help would be great, thanks!
-Jon
macbook pro 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.7), OCZ Vertex II SSD