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Help please help me find my missing...............

geek_flewyApril 26, 2008, 10:58 pm#1
Help please help me find my missing............... 15,000,000,000 bytes , Got a new 500GB HDD and it only registers as 451GB, now by my calculation this should read as 465GB. So are there any theories to why there are a few bytes missing(lol) or any analagies to support the M.I.A?
geek_radzbApril 26, 2008, 11:06 pm#2
I took it... Thought you had enough to share around. I needed the extra space to DL the internet.
geek_flewyApril 26, 2008, 11:14 pm#3
Nah you didnt get em!! lol if ya did i would be suing you a dollar a byte!!!!
geek_seriouslycgiApril 27, 2008, 12:02 am#4
5%... reserved for os?
geek_flewyApril 27, 2008, 12:05 am#5
Nah O/S on another drive. FreeNas
geek_soodanimApril 27, 2008, 12:07 am#6
500GB 15,000,000,000 bytes?
geek_seriouslycgiApril 27, 2008, 12:09 am#7
If its freenas then yeah thats how linux works too, reserves 5% of the drive.
geek_seriouslycgiApril 27, 2008, 12:13 am#8
I think lol ill try find something that explains it
geek_seriouslycgiApril 27, 2008, 12:16 am#9
Read the part on minimum free space http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/fsfilesysappx-20581?a=view
geek_seriouslycgiApril 27, 2008, 12:21 am#10
Ive never had linux say "you are out of room, i refuse to play nice ever again" "poof - bluescreen).
geek_flewyApril 27, 2008, 12:39 am#11
But this is a totaly free O/S drive? just datat, tho your theory works.
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