> 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
In fact they are giving you more than you asked for. Giga is a prefix for 10^x series. So really they should be giving you 1000000000 bytes > hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space. Calling it a 320gb hard > drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger. Its correct (slightly over) but it does confuse because computing people used the wrong units for so long and often still do. > 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. Plus about 5% is usually reserved space for the superuser. That makes some sense on the root partition and systems parts of the disk - although today 5% is perhaps excessive. For other partitions its less sensible. You can tune the reserved size with tune2fs -m Alan -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
