[OT -- no remaining Linux content] [plug] Dude, where is my HD space gone?

[Adam Davin]

Afternoon All, 

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:05:32 +0800
James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> In message <40E3E73B.5030605 at westnet.com.au>
> on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:28:11PM +0800, Garry wrote:
> > | 111GB * 95% = 105MB
> > Do you reckon?
> 
> (Aside from the factor of 1024...) I guess I /should/ have written
> 111GiB * 95% = 105MiB

Umm it could just be me being sleepless and all (seeings 'bub' was up for most of the night) but I still have a minor problem with this calculation, well not so much the calculation but the units... 

95% of something means its almost _all_ of it 105Mb is only around 0.0009% of the original 111Gb, thus 95% of 111Gb is 105Gb, not 105Mb (5.5Gb then being the amount that is reserved) 

I could be wrong though :) Feel free to correct.

> 
> In message <87lli4t30s.fsf at erdos.home>
> on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:50:27PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> > Garry <garbuck at westnet.com.au> writes:
> > >> One's metric, the other's imperial. I'm at least as accurate as NASA
> > > Oh.. I stand ummmm corrected... I think.  ;^)==
> > After all, James should know -- he's English :-P
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