Hi Javad, On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 10:51 +0000, STONE COLD wrote: > I have a dual boot installed on an 80gb hd. I installed a 400gb for my > media. I partitioned this 400gb hd into two 200gb partitions But after > a gutsy install they are now showing 186gb of free space each! > I don’t understand why this is? > Any information will be appreciated
This has to do with the way that hard disk manufacturers count disk space. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes, a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes and a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. These are the definitions that the computer uses (1024 is 2^10, as computers use base 2, binary, instead of base 10, denary). However, hard disk manufacturers count in 1000s rather than 1024s. This means that 1GB for a disk manufacturer (1000^3 bytes) is actually 0.931GB ([1000/1024]^3) for everyone else. Thanks, Phil -- Phil Bull http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
