so I really have the same amount of free space on my hard drive as before the update.
Sunday, April 24, 20118:47 AMBill [email protected] >On Apr 23, 2011, at 23:59 , Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > >> Before I updated to snow leopard I had 58gb of free space on my hard >> drive. After the update I have 70 gb of free space. Where did I get the >> extra space? > >I think that Snow Leopard installed only some of the printer drivers, >and was generally a smaller OS than Leopard. Also: Snow Leopard uses 10- >based kilo/mega/giga whereas all earlier OSes use 2-based. This means: > >Old OSes >1 KB = 2^10 bytes = 1,024 bytes >1 MB = 2^20 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes >1 GB = 2^30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes > >Snow Leopard and Disk Manufacturers: >1 KB = 10^3 = 1,000 bytes >1 MB = 10^6 = 1,000,000 bytes >1 GB = 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes > >So... even without the smaller OS, your old 58GB would have become a >little over 62GB just because of the new accounting. > >Bill >_______________________________________________ >MacGroup mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
