Fedora 4 maxtor 160Gb 30 gb missing;

[Robin Laing]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:12, Mirco Scaramucci wrote:
> 
>>hello guys,
>>I just purchased a brand new maxtor 160Gb harddrive where I installed
>>fedora core 4 and the drive was fully recognized by anaconda during
>>installation as a 160Gb.
>>Installation went all ok but when I first logged in to my account and
>>checked the available space on disk i noticed that strangely the space
>>available was only 135Gb meaning that approx 30Gb were not counted in.
>>I then upgraded to kernel 2.6.13.1-1532.FC4 hoping to regain the missing
>>space but still no sign of it.
>>I therefore installed QTPArted and checked what the situation was and
>>funny enough the LVM on qtparted is recognized as 160Gb.
>>I also have a 40Gb external HD connected via USB which is fully
>>recognized.
>>
>>What has happened to the remaining 30GB on the MAxtor HD?
> 
> 
> Most is probably the classic disk vendor kybye = 1000 bytes vs. everyone
> else using 1024: http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v30/vic30.htm
> and the rest is formatting overhead for the free space table and inodes.
> And by the way, 160-135 isn't quite 30.
> 

And the default root reserve.

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