Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:11:47 -0400 From: Rob Gridley <rob@mhzdesign.com> To: freebsd questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Drive Space - Am I Getting All I Should? Message-ID: <B9229743.529%rob@mhzdesign.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0206041330050.2298-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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For one thing drive manufacturers advertise drive size based on
1,000,000,000 bytes per GB. Where as a GB to a computer is 1,073,741,824
bytes. That would mean that 80 GB is actually about 74.5 GB.
Rob Gridley | 416.626.1777
System Administrator | rob@mhzdesign.com
MHz Design Communications | http://www.mhzdesign.com
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