[BarracksSi]

You'll have the option of setting available disk space with an iPod shuffle, but the regular iPods behave like any other hard disk.

How much space is really being used? What other files are on it?

I got my first iPod as an open-box special from Best Buy. Everything was fine, except that it had four H-U-G-E files that took up almost the entire 40 gigs. I used the Restore option of the iPod Updater utility to wipe everything out and start with a fresh disk.

If it's no big deal to do so, you might as well use that Restore option.