large disk space problem?

[John Summerfield]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

>>
> Unless you specify otherwise when you create the file system, 5% is
> reserved for root. You also lose disk space because of file system
> overhead. Then you have the fact that hard drive size is usually
> given with k=1000 - it looks better when advertising drive size.

be fair, everywhere else but computing, K means 10^3, M 10^6 etc. It's 
early computer types that sought to redefine it.

I remember when 64K[1] was a lot of memory on big computers, and some 
manufacturers called it 65K.


[1] words.
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Cheers
John

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