Nate Carlson wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Michael Hicks wrote: > > Hmm.. Would you be able to do `wc -c /dev/sd<blah>' and find the actual > > number of bytes on the disk? I'm not sure how much extra space various > > filesystems take up.. > > 635600896 /dev/sdc > > So, technically, it's a 606mb disk, correct? No, it's not 606 millibits, it's 606 megabytes (m=milli, b=bits, M=mega, B=bytes ;-) 635600896 Bytes / 1024 = 620704 kB 620704 kB / 1024 = 606 MB Looks like they rounded up the millions of bytes (been known to happen..) to the nearest 5 million (!) rather than the nearest 1 million. I guess `640 MB` is more sexy than `636 MB' -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ B.Gates: quality software / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ ... R.McDonald: gourmet \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) cuisine [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]