On 02/23/2010 01:09 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > 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. > ohh,,, got it > 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. > does is required 31 gb of space to .... for all this things ???? -- °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Jatin Khatri Registerd Linux user No #501175 www.counter.li.org No M$ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
