[linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?

David Brown lvm at davidb.org
Tue Apr 18 23:18:00 UTC 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:39:42PM -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote:

> Interestingly, this means drive manufacturers are not misleading 
> consumers after all.

It is still common to round and even just blatantly exaggerate.

I used to have a "640MB" MO drive from Fujitsu.  Total capacity was about
635 million bytes, or about 605 MiB.

Dave




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