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Article #268Re: What percentage must be alloted to primary partition.
From: Grinder
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:29
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:29
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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?
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