Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:38:19 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard drive RPM Message-ID: <20070921003819.0282b351@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20070920092308.B10999@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <7f28909c2f575ccd98796e2af18d4e05@prodigy.net> <20070920150343.06ebc690@meijome.net> <20070920092308.B10999@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:23:45 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > Advertised sizes are for unformatted media. Each filesystem will use different
>
> no. they use available space (in sectors) but counted in billions of bytes
> instead of 2^30 bytes
fair enough...but disk's useful capacity will be slightly
different after you format it in whatever filesystem you choose with whatever
options you choose to format.
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