On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:12, Mirco Scaramucci wrote: > hello guys, > I just purchased a brand new maxtor 160Gb harddrive where I installed > fedora core 4 and the drive was fully recognized by anaconda during > installation as a 160Gb. > Installation went all ok but when I first logged in to my account and > checked the available space on disk i noticed that strangely the space > available was only 135Gb meaning that approx 30Gb were not counted in. > I then upgraded to kernel 2.6.13.1-1532.FC4 hoping to regain the missing > space but still no sign of it. > I therefore installed QTPArted and checked what the situation was and > funny enough the LVM on qtparted is recognized as 160Gb. > I also have a 40Gb external HD connected via USB which is fully > recognized. > > What has happened to the remaining 30GB on the MAxtor HD? Most is probably the classic disk vendor kybye = 1000 bytes vs. everyone else using 1024: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v30/vic30.htm and the rest is formatting overhead for the free space table and inodes. And by the way, 160-135 isn't quite 30. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
