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From:	Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB?
Date:	Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:37:36
Message-Id:	`1161754128.22203.25.camel@orpheus`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] 320GB hard drive maxed at ~280GB? by Iain Buchanan

1	On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:17 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2	> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 21:12 -0700, Grant wrote:
3	> > I have a 320GB hard drive
4	>
5	> yes, a 320 "gigabyte" hard drive, as opposed to a 320
6	> "gibibyte"[1][2][3] hard drive. Technically 1 gigabyte is one million
7	> bytes,
8
9	sigh it's been a long week, please be nice to me :)
10
11	1 gigabyte is of course one thousand million bytes (1,000,000,000B) not
12	one million bytes. That would be a megabyte...
13
14	here and everywhere else I stuffed up, but the calculations still hold.
15
16	thanks.
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18	Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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