Thanks guys. I did the maths myself. This sucks. Dam marketing, and from Sony no less.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/14/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Arremann</b> <<a href="mailto:loony@loonybin.org">
loony@loonybin.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:36, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
<br>> Hello. I want to burn to dvd some data which is just a tad over 4.4GB. I<br>> have some Sony 4.7GB DVD+R blank media. However K3b insists that the media<br>> is two small for the data. Anyone has an idea what is actually going on?
<br>><br>> Thank you.<br>marketing at its finest... the 4.7GB are marketing Giga Bytes - with a base of<br>1000 rather than 1024. Some people us GiB to indicate that they really mean<br>1024 base. For GB to GiB you have roughly -
7.5% difference.<br><br>4.7 GB / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 = 4.38 GiB<br><br>You'll see the same with virtually all storage devices - including harddisks.<br>Read the specs for your harddisk and then check with fdisk or something like
<br>that how big it really is :-)<br><br>Peter.<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">
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