On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:26 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > On 02/23/2010 01:09 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:48 +0530, Jatin K wrote: > > > >> what about this missing space ... > >> where is it ? ) > >> > > The space you're looking for doesn't exist, for two reasons: > > > > First, most (all?) hard drive manufacturers define 1gb as 1000mb. In > > reality, 1gb is 1024mb. Therefore, a hard drive that is sold as a 320gb > > hard drive has only 312.5gb of actual space. Calling it a 320gb hard > > drive is a marketing ploy to make it sound larger. > > > > ohh,,, got it > > > You also lose some of the hard drive capacity to what you might call > > overhead; tracking and format information that allows your computer to > > store and find stuff on the hard drive. > > > > does is required 31 gb of space to .... for all this things ???? > Itt has long been a rule on Unix and Linux to set awsodwew 5% -10% oof a disk for root acounting tasks. The space is only available to root. > -- ======================================================================= My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either. -- E.B. White ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
