where is my remaining space ????

Jatin K ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 07:56:00 UTC 2010


On 02/23/2010 01:09 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:48 +0530, Jatin K wrote:
>    
>> what about this missing space ...
>> where is it ? )
>>      
> The space you're looking for doesn't exist, for two reasons:
>
> First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb.  In
> reality, 1gb is 1024mb.  Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as a 320gb
> hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space.  Calling it a 320gb hard
> drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger.
>    

ohh,,, got it

> You also lose some of the hard drive capacity to what you might call
> overhead; tracking and format information that allows your computer to
> store and find stuff on the hard drive.
>    

does is required  31 gb of space to .... for all this things ????



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