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 I remember when the 10mb HD was considered huge. When it was formatted the byte count exceeded 10mb, of course; when the new HDs are formatted they fall far short in the byte count. Symbolism over substance, I guess. -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing,
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:33, Dylan wrote: the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty