On 4/7/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 13:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:26:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> >
> > So where did 27 ( 500 -473 ) GB go?
> >
> > Is there any error in my Calculations?
>
> disk drive manufacturers label their disks based on a 1 GB = 1000 MB =
> 1000 K, but the partition sizes are based on 1 GB = 1024 MB = 1024 K.
>
> that's how I understand it.
That is how the user is bamboozled. Even the drive itself says it right
on its label, after a few lawsuits.
I just happen to have 4 - 300GB disks in a single LVM volume group.
# vgdisplay voidVG
--- Volume group ---
VG Name voidVG
Format lvm2
[snip]
VG Size 1.09 TB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 35772
Each one of those drives is a "300GB" drive. But yet, I only get 1.09TB
out of the 4 drives.
Now, lets try the math to explain this. We should have 1200G or 1.2T.
But wait we actually do.
Figure it this way:
35775 (number of Physical Extents)
x 32 MB Physical Extent size
x 1024 KBytes per MByte
x 1024 Bytes per KByte
-----------------------------------
1,200,409,804,800 Bytes
Are we clear yet? See it *DOES* == 1.2T (base10)
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Thankyou so much Andrew and Greg for your Clarifications :-)
I knew that the manufacturers used base 10 for calculations but I
thought at least fdisk would give me the right no. :-(
especially after seeing that 500.1 GB on the first line
But if you divide the Bytes (500106813440 bytes) 3 times with 1024 you
get only 465 GB :-)
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websrv-1:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500106813440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
==========================================================
Thank you so much
Kind Regards
Siju
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