Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 15:53:34 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/59565: [PATCH] FAQ doesn't cover definition of gigabyte Message-ID: <20031121205334.ABD8B3A@be-well.no-ip.com> Resent-Message-ID: <200311212100.hALL0X42013945@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 59565
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] FAQ doesn't cover definition of gigabyte
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 21 13:00:33 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lowell Gilbert
>Release: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD be-well.ilk.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #55: Sun Nov 16 23:29:37 EST 2003 root@be-well.ilk.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BE-WELL i386
FAQ document
>Description:
This is an addition for the FAQ to handle a question that has been
asked often of late.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
*** book.sgml.ORIG Thu Nov 20 16:20:40 2003
--- book.sgml Fri Nov 21 15:52:55 2003
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*** 6150,6155 ****
--- 6150,6173 ----
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
+ <question id="manufacturer-disk-size">
+ <para>Why does FreeBSD see my disk as smaller than the
+ manufacturer says it is?</para>
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>Disk manufacturers calculate gigabytes as a billion bytes
+ each, whereas FreeBSD calculates them as 1,073,741,824 bytes
+ each. This explains why, for example, FreeBSD's boot messages
+ will report a disk that supposedly has 80GB as holding
+ 76319MB.</para>
+ <para>Also note that FreeBSD will (by default)
+ <link linkend="disk-more-than-full">reserve</link> 8% of the disk
+ space.
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+
+ <qandaentry>
<question id="disk-more-than-full">
<para>How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100%
full?</para>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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