Why it takes soooooo.....?

[Mandriva-user]

Hi !!

 

I let install second WD hd 120gb and I looked into it and just have 111 gb free space.

Where is all those rest of 9 gb?

My first is as master 60 gb hard drive slave 120gb hd.

 

Thank you for your big help.

 

Ciao mike01

[Guest ndeb]

Note that most hard-drive manufacturers use 1GB = 1 billion (10^9), while in the binary world, 1GB = 1024^3 B. So your 120GB drive actually has 120 billion bytes, which can show up as 120/(1.024^3) = 111.7587 GB when u run the command df.

 

U can run df -B <SIZE> where:

SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following:

kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

[Mandriva-user]

ndeb can we fix it or is it to late,but on that 120gb hd is empty?

 

U can run df -B <SIZE> where:

Quote:

SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following:

kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1,000,000, M 1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

 

U can run df -B <SIZE> where: You saying run df -B <size (G)> where: .

How can I find out which size is G , T , P , E , Z , Y?.

 

Tnx for help.

[Mandriva-user]

Now I understand why is only 111.xx hd space,

 

Here's a link to Western Digital's explanation, which is much more lucid than mine

 

Tnx for helping me.

[ramfree17]

err, wheres the link? never did like WD drives since a friend's wd drive crashed during the end of the semester (and took away most of this baby-thesis) and the warning by civileme on the mandrake newbie list.

 

ymmv.

 

ciao!

[hippocampe]

60Gb+120Gb ?

 

If you have that many mp3s share!! 8) :D