On Thursday 08 November 2007 19:49, aniket gadgil wrote: > Hay Saifi, > I m not expert but whatever i have heard that The HDD is measured not in > GigaBytes but in Gigabits. Thats why when u calulate all the 80 GB in ur > hard disk u get it 74 GB i.e 80 Gigabits = 74 Gigabytes.. > > Well i am not sure about this.. > if this is wrong then whenever u get right answer plz tell me that too.. > > Thank you, > Aniket > > On 11/8/07, Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > why is only 74GB available on a 80GB seagate IDE hard disk ? > > > > After creating a single ext3fs partition, here are the stats. > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > > /dev/hdb1 74G 181M 70G 1% /data2 > > > > Currently, there is no data, so 181M used is perhaps metadata ? > > > > If so, why the available space is only 70GB ? > > > > Is this a bug ? > > > > thanks > > Saifi. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Hi Saifi I also remember reading the same reason in PCWorld. AP
