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In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Grinder <grinder@no.spam.maam.com>
wrote:

>Frank McCoy wrote:
>> In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Grinder <grinder@no.spam.maam.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Frank McCoy wrote:
>>>>> 2.  When partitioned, some of the space is lost defining the partition.
>>>>> Also, far more space is lost in various formats that don't allow
>>>>> partitioning the full space available; so there's some unpartitioned
>>>>> space left over in almost every drive these days.  The bigger the drive,
>>>>> the more likely.  In my 160-gig drive (for example), even when I tell
>>>>> Windows to partition the entire drive as one huge volume, 8 gig is left
>>>>> over.  ;-{
>>> GT wrote:
>>>> Why did you leave 8GB behind? Following installation of my new system drive, 
>>>> I partitioned my Samsung Spinpoint 160GB 2 days ago, using windows and I am 
>>>> using the full 160GB, there's is no 8GB space left! That's 160 Giga Bytes as 
>>>> in 10^9. No approximations, no rounding, a pure 160GB. If you want me to 
>>>> approximate it using some bizarre inaccurate power of 2, then its 149.05GB, 
>>>> but we are still talking about 160,000,000,000 in 1 partition.
>>> I've noticed that when partitioning a drive using the Windows XP/2000 
>>> installer, a small portion is always left unallocated.  It's 8 megabytes 
>>> though, not 8 gigabytes.
>> 
>> Oops.  Perhaps you're right.
>> Sorry about that.
>
>No worries.  If you do have an extra 8 GB on your system, would mind if 
>I stored some of my overflow pornography on it?

Sorry ... I'd use it to store my sex-stories on.
Can always use more room for that.
;-}

Trouble is:
Wouldn't be worth a damn as *backup*, since it'd still be on the same
drive.   ;-{

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