[Gllug] Re: small hard disk problem

[Jon Dye]

Minty wrote:
> Small problem with new harddrive [1].  It should be 200Gb, but it's
> only showing 137.4Gb.
[...]
> [1] Seagate ST3200826A Barracuda 200GB 7200RPM ATA/100 8MB Cache - OEM
> http://tinyurl.com/ad5b7

When they say 200GB they mean 200*1000*1000*1000 bytes which is 186GiB 
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte).  Not sure where the rest 
has gone, maybe it's used up by the journal?

JD

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