Hello users,
I have a disk which is actually 72GB. 2GB has been used as swap while
the rest was given to /.
Can someone explain to me what I could be missing here, because what
I am seeing isn't what I expect. Perhaps it's just right while I am
the dumb one. Why isn't the whole size reported?
I think this is (mostly) a GiB vs. GB confusion.
In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's some background
(if you do, skip the next paragraph):
Giga is the metric prefix meaning billion (or thousand million, if
you're British)--that is, 10^9. Computer people tend to use it to mean
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Hello users,
I have a disk which is actually 72GB. 2GB has been used as swap while
the rest was given to /.
Can someone explain to me what I could be missing here, because what
I am seeing isn't what I expect. Perhaps it's just right while I am
the dumb one. Why isn't
Hi
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:07:15 +0300
Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello users,
I have a disk which is actually 72GB. 2GB has been used as swap while
the rest was given to /.
Well, 72GByte in the manufacturer's notation which is decimal.
So your disk has 72 * 10^3^3 (=
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:07:15PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Hello users,
I have a disk which is actually 72GB. 2GB has been used as swap while
the rest was given to /.
Can someone explain to me what I could be missing here, because what
I am seeing isn't what I expect. Perhaps
