From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 21:45:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3111C16A469 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAFEE13C4B6 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 31241 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2007 09:38:24 -0500 Received: from 124-170-197-174.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (124.170.197.174) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Sep 2007 09:38:23 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:38:19 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20070921003819.0282b351@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20070920092308.B10999@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <7f28909c2f575ccd98796e2af18d4e05@prodigy.net> <20070920150343.06ebc690@meijome.net> <20070920092308.B10999@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jekillen , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Hard drive RPM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:45:06 -0000 On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 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 fair enough...but disk's useful capacity will be slightly different after you format it in whatever filesystem you choose with whatever options you choose to format. _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome You shouldn't verb words. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.