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Re: [SLE] Hard drive size question
- From: Dylan <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:33:14 +0100
- Message-id: <200406221833.15183.dylan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 17:23 pm, Thom Nuzum wrote:
> My hard drive is a Seagate 160G. SUSE reads it (both 9 and 9.1) as
> 149GB plus 1 Gb for swap on partion stage of install.
As others have said - this is because HD manufacturers can't count in
binary correctly. The bigger the drive the greater the discrepancy so
more and more people are going to notice as drives grow...
> Kquick disk tells me its 145.2 GB.
This difference is the overhead of actually writing a filesystem to the
partition.
> Just wondering why the difference and where is the 5-10G.
> Is this anything to worry about?
Nope, it's perfectly expected
HTH
Dylan
--
"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine"
-Dark Helmet
> My hard drive is a Seagate 160G. SUSE reads it (both 9 and 9.1) as
> 149GB plus 1 Gb for swap on partion stage of install.
As others have said - this is because HD manufacturers can't count in
binary correctly. The bigger the drive the greater the discrepancy so
more and more people are going to notice as drives grow...
> Kquick disk tells me its 145.2 GB.
This difference is the overhead of actually writing a filesystem to the
partition.
> Just wondering why the difference and where is the 5-10G.
> Is this anything to worry about?
Nope, it's perfectly expected
HTH
Dylan
--
"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine"
-Dark Helmet
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