Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:41:22 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> To: Peter <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?) Message-ID: <45C3DA32.9010407@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <200702021918.49420.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> References: <200702021839.29502.pmatulis@sympatico.ca> <45C3CD43.3080200@mac.com> <200702021918.49420.pmatulis@sympatico.ca>
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On 2007/02/02 15:18, Peter seems to have typed: > So now my question becomes "Where does FreeBSD get 289 from 305?". Well, for one thing, you never have 305GB. 1024MB = 1GB. You only had 298GB UNFORMATTED. Formatted, you had 289GB. With 8% reserve, you're down to 266GB. Remember the 2MB floppies? 2,000,000 bytes = 1.907MB UNFORMATTED. 1.44 MB formatted. Same principle applies to all disks. Formatting takes space, but makes the disk usable.
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