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[Brian Boutel]

Mangee wrote:

>
>> Sigh, yet another reason not to listen to a word those Quay people 
>> say...
>> I perfected the art of giving their salespeople sideways glances of
>> disbelief a long time ago.
>
>
> I got a 9GigaByte HDD only to find that model only came in a 8.4GB, 
> which formated to 7.2GB... 

A drive manufacturer's GB is 1,000,000,000  i.e. 10^9 Bytes, while a 
real GB is 1073741824 i.e 2^30 Bytes, so what a manufacturer calls "9GB" 
is only 8.4GB really. This has nothing to do with Quay.

As to how you get down to 7.2GB, I don't know. I assume by "formatted" 
you mean "after creating a file system". This costs space by reserving 
areas for particular purposes, but 14% (8.4 down to 7.2) seems a lot. 5% 
would be more normal. What kind of fs did you put on i?. What does fdisk 
tell you?
 
--brian

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Brian Boutel
Wellington New Zealand