17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
11:41
On Saturday 17 September 2005 13:24, boricua wrote:
having 2 issues:
1. just install a new hd 160GB but du only shows aprox. 150GB anything i can do to display full size of drive using 9.3
You are seeing the full size. The problem is the definition of "giga". By tradition in the computer industry, kilo hasn't meant 1000, it's meant 1024, mega has meant 1024*1024, and giga has meant 1024*1024*1024. However, hard drive makers have chosen to stick with the real meanings of these prefixes. So a hard drive kilobyte is really 1000 bytes, a megabyte is a million and a gigabyte is a thousand million. So when a hard drive maker says a drive is 160 gigabytes, in "computer" terms that is 160000000/(1024*1024*1024) or just under 150 "giga"bytes