Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Unless you specify otherwise when you create the file system, 5% is reserved for root. You also lose disk space because of file system overhead. Then you have the fact that hard drive size is usually given with k=1000 - it looks better when advertising drive size.
be fair, everywhere else but computing, K means 10^3, M 10^6 etc. It's early computer types that sought to redefine it.
I remember when 64K[1] was a lot of memory on big computers, and some manufacturers called it 65K.
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