<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dean Harding</b> <<a href="mailto:dean.harding@dload.com.au">dean.harding@dload.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It's kind of annoying that as drives get bigger and bigger, the size the<br>manufacturer reports gets further and further from the size the<br>operating system reports</blockquote></div><br>Let see my operating system reports my SAMSUNG HD501LJ as
<br><br> sudo fdisk /dev/sda<br>Command (m for help): p<br>Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes<br><br>looks pretty close to me.<br>"<b>giga-</b> (symbol: <i>G</i>) is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix" title="SI prefix">
prefix</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI" title="SI">SI</a> system of units denoting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28numbers%29" title="Orders of magnitude (numbers)">10<sup>
9</sup></a>, or 1,000,000,000 (1 billion)"<br><br><br><br>