On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:22 PM, charles zeitler <cfzeitler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have an external usb HD (500Go) which I partionned (with fdisk) like this: >> >> /dev/sdx1 ~20Go: ntfs >> /dev/sdx2 rest of disk: ext3 >> >> If I use df -h, I get: >> >> /dev/sdb2 439G 44G 374G 11% /media/linux >> /dev/sdb1 21G 66M 20G 1% /media/ntfs >> >> (today x=b!) the total 439+21= 460 so missing 40Go >> François Patte >> > > harddrive manufactureres use 1KB = 1000 bytes, > fdisk & df use 1KB = 1024 bytes. > As Charles mentions, the hardware manufacturers (powers of 10) and software programmers (powers of 2^10) prefer different units. With the above recipe, you will find 500 GB (gigabyte 10^9 bytes) is approximately equivalent to 465 GiB (gibibyte 2^10^3 bytes). Hope this helps. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- 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
