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Re: partition size
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 14:42:59 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:41:06 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Clare Teoh wrote:
> When I used a 4.2gig UltraSCSI harddisk, after "mkfs /dev/sdc1" (the whole
> partition, I only get about 3.9gig. Is this Normal?
Yes. The gigs you got are 1024*1024*1024 bytes in size.
Disk makers call a gig is 1000*1000*1024, which is about 6% shrinkage.
You would see the same thing under Windows.
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Jan Carlson
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