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From: "Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:00:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4445294D.6050500@conterra.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAB83747-D6F3-4148-9836-7E22B8AD9ABF@isg.si>

Martin Gombac wrote
> and noticed 277.60 GB != 291.08..GB. So my question is where did the 
> rest of disk space went to?

it depends on counting "kilo" as 1000 or 1024.
This happens even twice for kb -> mb -> gb.

Thus:  277.60 * 1.024 * 1.024 = 291.08

Memory capacity is calculated using 1024 where as disk manufacturer
like using 1000, as this results in bigger numbers
(but does not result in more space :-(

Dieter.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18 18:01 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 [this message]
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

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