Re: [newbie] Boot problem

[Joseph H Perry]

> 
> MANY manufacturures (?) exagerrate the capacities of their drives by quoting
> the bare unformatted figure - totally unrealistic, as whatever file system
> you format a disk with it ALWAYS reduces in size - the larger the disk, the
> more scary the amount of size you lose.
> 
> Can't think off the top of my head whether a 1.5GB reduction is reasonable
> or not - it does sound a little excessive!
> 

Many Manufacturers when stating disk capacity use 1 billion bytes as 1 GB,
others user 10^30 as 1G. 9.5GB using the second method comes to 10,200,547,328
bytes, which might also be reported as 10.2 GB.

Joseph H Perry
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