Avatar billede fredand Forsker
27. november 2007 - 20:19 Der er 2 kommentarer og
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Partion and size of harddrive looks strange?

Hello!

I have just bought a new Harddrive at 160GB.
I installed "Mandriva 2008" without notice the hardrive size.
Unfortenately I mess everything up and I need to install again.

But when I try to install "Mandriva 2008" for the second time I got to go through harddrive partion set up. I selected "Erase Harddrive".

From the first installation there is partions left.
sda=63MB
hda=147GB

Right now I format the hda6. If I remeber it correct it looked like hda was devided like this:
hda1=7.8GB
hda_something=3,2GB
hda6=137MB


BTW I guess
hda1=the Linux OS
hda_something=swap space
hda6=file storege for "home" folders

Correct me if I'm wrong.

How ever 147GB + 63MB is not 160GB.
Where is my missing 13GB?????

Hope some one could help me out and explain it.

Best regards
Fredrik
Avatar billede susan_loessl Nybegynder
27. november 2007 - 22:30 #1
I know it's not really a comment that will resolve your problem, but harddrives are never the size they claim to be. It think it is because they calculate with 1000 instead of 1024. So, if 1 kb is counted as 1000 byte instead of 1024 bytes, you will lose quite a few when reaching 160 GB.

Someone correct me if I am wrong!
Avatar billede fredand Forsker
28. november 2007 - 08:19 #2
Hello Susan!

Thanks for your reply!

I guess you are right.

But I think every thing was correct at the end after the installation.

With the "Storage"-app in Mandriva I could see that there was a partion 8.4Gb and a partion of 147Gb, (147+8.4 = 155.4, pretty close to 160Gb) The rest is probably for swapping.

/Fredrik
Avatar billede susan_loessl Nybegynder
28. november 2007 - 10:21 #3
I know they "cheat" with the GB's, but I still get mad everytime I buy a new harddrive and see just how much dissapears into thin air.

And you're welcome!

/Susan
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