Globe Trotter writes:
Hi, I bought a new T61 with a 120 GB HDD which came installed with Vista Home. My original plan was to have a Linux system with 103 GB for /usr/local, 6GB for /, 1 GB for swap and 2GB for /tmp. I planned on 8 GB for Windows. However, the Vista Home basic was too much for me so I scrapped it and got XP Professional installed (very limited). Then I tried to install Fedora. But Fedpra can only see 114.8 GB of diskspace, including the XP NTFS partition. Question: where did the remaining 5GB part of the HDD go?
Nowhere. Disk drive manufacturers count 1 megabyte as containing 1000 kilobytes, and 1 gigabyte as containing 1000 megabytes, mostly to screw you, because, since time immemorial, 1 megabyte always contained 1024 kilobytes, and 1 gigabyte always contained 1024 megabytes.
Thankfully, 1 kilobyte is still 1024 bytes, in disk-speak. $ bc bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.For details type `warranty'. scale=6
1024 * 1000 * 1000 * 120 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 114.440917
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