Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 29 Aug 1998 16:22:26 -0300 | | From | Horacio J. Peña <> | | Subject | Re: sector size of 2068? |
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¡Hola!
> What interests me about the resulting behavior is what fdisk says: > Device Flag Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 0 0 4923 8839246+ 83 Linux native > /dev/sdb3 0 0 4923 8839246+ 5 Whole disk
> Is 8.43 gig really how much is left when you partition off a 9.09 gig > drive? That just doesn't seem sane. Somebody tell me if I'm crazy.
The 9,1 Gb were "marketer's Gb" = 1.000.000.000 bytes...
The 8,43 gig are "hacker's Gb" = 2^30 bytes...
> -- Peter
HoraPe
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