On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 10:09 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 6:51 am, Todd Slater wrote:
> > Todd said:
> > It actually took a little while to figure out that /tmp stuff, but hey,
> > it's done now! Except now it reports the drive is 37GB instead of 40.
> > Not sure what's up with that.
>
> Could this be the old 1000 vs. 1024 argument?

37 x 1024^3  = 39.7 x 10^9
40x10^9  = 37.253 x 1024^3
Looks like you're right.

It wont actually be either of these numbers, of course, since although 
bytes-per-sector is a power of two, sectors-per-track, tracks-per-surface and 
surfaces-per-unit are not generally powers of either two or ten.

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Richard Urwin

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