Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:30:18 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: Quinn Ellis <Quinn1@gmx.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HDD space Message-ID: <200401191030.18890.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040120025929.02551aa0@avemedia.com> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20040120025929.02551aa0@avemedia.com>
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On Monday 19 January 2004 10:03 am, Quinn Ellis wrote: > Hello all. > > I have a 120gig drive i'm trying to install freeBSD onto the end of. > i have two 51gig windows slices, and one unformatted slice of 10gig. > > FreeBSD is reporting this as only about 5 gig, after it recommends its own > settings. I have tried to set it as per the BIOS, but this doesn't seem to > help. > > Any ideas. > > Quinn The advertised 120GB is measured using the marketing standard (those damned marketers) of 1 Kilobyte = 1,000 bytes -- not 1Kilobyte = 1,024 bytes; so you'll never get a full 120GB under any operating system. You can confirm this by reading the small print on various hard drives' retail boxes. It looks like your system is seeing a total of 117GB, which is what I'm getting here. Sorry for the bad news, Andrew Gould
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