Re: where is my remaining space ????

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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.

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.
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