[linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?

John Cassidy Sean at JDCassidy.net
Tue Apr 18 18:26:39 UTC 2006


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Was denkst Du??


> Martin Gombac wrote
>> and noticed 277.60 GB != 291.08..GB. So my question is where did the
>> rest of disk space went to?
>
> it depends on counting "kilo" as 1000 or 1024.
> This happens even twice for kb -> mb -> gb.
>
> Thus:  277.60 * 1.024 * 1.024 = 291.08
>
> Memory capacity is calculated using 1024 where as disk manufacturer
> like using 1000, as this results in bigger numbers
> (but does not result in more space :-(
>
> Dieter.
>
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