missing piece of HDD while installed F7 for thinkpad T61

[Ed Greshko]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 18:42 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> Whenever you buy a hard drive, the rating you see on the package is
>> MiB, not MB - in other words, the system where there are 1,000,000
>> Bytes in a "MegaByte". 
> 
> The other way around...
> 
> MB is decimal MegaByte (1 million bytes)
> MiB is binary MebiByte (1024 kilobytes)
> 
> The response was partially correct in that hard drives aren't always
> written how you expect.  Hard drive manufacturers generally use the
> decimal value, simply because it gives a bigger number.  They also
> sometimes round the figure off.

I suppose that someone should also mention that even after they create a
file system of a given size it will show up mounted with a size smaller than
they might expect.  That being owed to creation of super-blocks, etc.  In
other words, not all bits available on the drive will be usable/seen by the
user.