That makes sense. I felt it was something like that with an even 8. I have new reasons to like FC4, due to Blender functionality.
Onward and upward. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garl Grigsby Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:30 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] where did that 8 GB go? >> When partitioning the RAID with Ubuntu the graphic showed the full 160GB of >> >> drive space, but FC4 shows 152GB? I went ahead with FC4, but before I >> become reliant on this is there a quick fix? >> >> Probably no fix. Some manufactures [1] define 1 GB to be 1000 MB and 1 MB to be 1000 KB. Some define 1 GB = 1024 MB and 1 MB to be 1024 KB (as it should be). So say the manufacture decides to use a factor of 1000. That gives 160 GB = 160000000 bytes. Now calculate it based on 1024 MB / GB 160000000 / 1024^2 = 152.58 GB So your 8 GB is lost to funky marketing and one distro reporting in factors of 1000 and another reporting in factors of 1024. Garl [1] http://www.seagate.com/products/discselect/glossary/index.html#cap _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
