Re: New hard drive, need a plan...

In article <dtptq2$ou2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Calum Benson <iol.ie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard E Maine wrote:
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So far I have partitioned into 80 and 30 (so much for the
advertised 120 of the drive, how can 10GB be taken for
partitioning/formatting with journaled HFS+ - never mind, this is
not a big worry!)

You are confusing "decimal GB" and "binary GB".

Incidentally, there's actually an official nomenclature for binary
storage units: KiB, MiB, and GiB. The SI units, kB, MB and GB, are only
supposed to be used for the "decimal" versions, although of course
common usage still tends to dictate otherwise. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix for more info.

Interesting. This would avoid confusion.

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dorayme
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