It's due to the base 10 or base 2 mathematics used. IBM uses the true IEEE GB value of 1 billion bytes, whereas almost all operating systems use the base 2 math. If you take the Linux number and multiply by 1024*1024*1024, you will probably come up with approx 8514 million bytes.
Peter I. Vander Woude Sr. Mainframe Engineer Harris Teeter, Inc. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/13/2002 1:50:38 PM >>> IBM states that a 3390-9 device as 10,017 cylinders which they convert to 8.3 GB (8514 MB per volume). When we define a volume to LINUX as a Reiser device we end up with 7.1 GB available. I can see losing some space to blocking differences but 1.2 GB seems a bit much. Does anyone have any insight. Thanks.
