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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:14:32PM -0700, Benjamin S Carrell wrote: > I would think that you lose that space to formatting That would be irrelevant. We're looking at the kernel's summation of the geometry, not the filesystem's description of usable space. > (would it not get the size of the drive from the bios?) No, the kernel tends not to rely on the BIOS for geometry. Which is usually very wise. > but I stand open for correction. Same here. It's always a good idea. :-) Is this perhaps Maxtor providing their own 'non-standard'[1] definition of gigabyte, rather than a technical issue? - Chris. [1]: (viz. 'wrong') -- $a="printf.net"; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a | www.$a | finger: chris@$a As to luck, there's the old miners' proverb: Gold is where you find it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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