From: David Brown <lvm@davidb.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:18:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060418231800.GA32309@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44454E8E.70800@hathawaymix.org>
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:39:42PM -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Interestingly, this means drive manufacturers are not misleading
> consumers after all.
It is still common to round and even just blatantly exaggerate.
I used to have a "640MB" MO drive from Fujitsu. Total capacity was about
635 million bytes, or about 605 MiB.
Dave
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-18 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-18 15:12 [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition? Martin Gombac
2006-04-18 18:00 ` Dieter Stüken
2006-04-18 18:26 ` John Cassidy
2006-04-18 20:30 ` Martin Gombac
2006-04-18 20:39 ` Shane Hathaway
2006-04-18 23:18 ` David Brown [this message]
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