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>> or roughly 709.5MB. > you are just dividing by 1000 at this point.. if you were to further > divide by 1024, you'd end up with a number close to amount returned by > the finder > > (726,510,022 /1024) /1024 = 692.8539485931396484375 DOH!! -shakes head sadly- i very carefully remembered to do my first division by 1024, and then quite happily totally skipped doing that again. I reckon I need to get more sleep. |-)> >> I assume the discrepencies are all due to the block allocation >> differences >> between the different sized devices. I _don't_ want to create a 700MB >> HD > on a 120GB drive, you're worried about 700MB? i'm not even worried > about that on my little 30GB one.. ;-) > > Heh, no it's not the space I'm worried about, it's that 1) there are already a dozen partitions on my desktop (from several drives), and 2) since i'm trying to calculate what will fit in the 700MB space, using a 700 meg partition would defeat the purpose because I'd have to figure that out myself first, eh? B-)> BTW, large storage can be had for _well_ under $200. 40GB drive can be had for under $100 (and i just read that Staples is supposed to be having a sale in store only this saturday with an 80GB ATA drive for $90 after rebate). Storage is good. --HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-)> _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
