Fdisk disk size issue on RHEL 4

Eugene Vilensky evilensky at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 01:14:57 UTC 2009


> If your customers really don't understand this, ask them to format a
> 500GB disk on their home PC and then explain why Windows tells them it's
> not 500GB. (I presume they are normally Windows users, given their
> demonstrated ability in the clueless department).

As long as they aren't Apple users:
http://lifehacker.com/5349204/snow-leopard-reports-hard-drive-capacity-correctly-in-base-10

This isn't good for anyone except drive makers :(




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