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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Hard drive RPM
Message-ID:  <20070920092308.B10999@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20070920150343.06ebc690@meijome.net>
References:  <7f28909c2f575ccd98796e2af18d4e05@prodigy.net> <20070920150343.06ebc690@meijome.net>

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>> as 120 Gb and actually only has 117 Gb usable capacity.
>> Like 9Gb is enough for several operating systems. 3Gb is even
>> enough for an operating syste
>
> Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use different

no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes 
instead of 2^30 bytes



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