2008/5/23 Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> As an aside, I seem to be missing approx 18GB of HD space - this is a >> 200GB HD, but adding the values given above totals 182GB. Strange, and I >> cannot track it down anywhere, and I don't dual-boot, so unless 200GB >> was listed on the packaging as an approximation, almost 20GB have gone AWOL. >> > > Run 'parted /dev/yourdisk' and in parted's prompt enter 'print'. > It will tell you where each partition begins and ends. There might be > empty (unpartitioned) space between partitions or at the end/beginning > of disk. >
That, or the marketing department of your hard drive manufacturer confuses binary and base-10 exponential expressions. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
