Re: [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?

[Martin Gombac <martin isg si>]

Tnx. for explanation.
I didn't think that cfdisk uses 1000 instead of 1024.

Regards,
Martin

On 2006.4.18, at 20:00, Dieter Stüken wrote:

> 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.