Oh...thank you, I was duped by the fdisk output. 

When I hit

fdisk /dev/sda1

and p to print out partition table, it shows me 

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000235597824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121605 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

and df -h says

/dev/sda1             932G   50G  883G   6% /externalstore

I didn't look at the number of bytes..., I guess this should explain. Thank you.


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Craig White
Sent: Fri 10/8/2004 8:50 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Accessing scsi based external storage
 
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 21:35, Bill Jonas wrote:

> There are fine-print explanations of this -- and in more
> marketing-friendly terms -- on the boxes the drives came in.  They might
> say that 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, or that the 250 GB they claim is
> "unformatted capacity".
----
kind of like a 17" monitor which they now have to state things like
15.9" viewable after many vendors were clobbered by class action
lawsuits.

I guess the main thing that struck me here is I remember when I first
purchased a floppy disk drive for my Apple II and thought that 140K
provided an incredible amount of storage space and when I bought my
first 10Mb hard drive, I thought I died and went to heaven.

Craig

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