Re: Large hard disk confusion
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/06/05
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:24:25 -0600
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 10:44 +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Brian Clark wrote:
>
> > I just installed sarge on a 160 GB hard disk. Partitions are 2GB swap,
> > 50 MB /boot, and the rest for /.
> >
> > ~$ df -ahT
> > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda3 ext3 145G 230M 138G 1% /
> > proc proc 0 0 0 - /proc
> > devpts devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
> > tmpfs tmpfs 443M 0 443M 0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/hda1 ext3 45M 9.3M 33M 23% /boot
> > usbfs usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
> >
> > My question is, why is hda3 only showing as 145 GB? Surely ext3 isn't
> > taking up gigabytes worth of journal information?
>
> I think it's common that "160 GB" means 160000000000 bytes when
> manufactures defines harddrive space.
> And 160 "real" GB is 201997680640
160 GiB = 171,798,691,840
160 GB = 160,000,000,000
If OP would read the fine print on his hard drive, he would see
that the manufacturer clearly specifies that GB == 1,000,000,000,
i.e. 10^9, *not* 2^30.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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