[ale] proper way to reformat a hard drive?

Wed Oct 8 16:20:32 EDT 2003

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

>   Now I have one 56 gb partition and no idea what happened
>   to the missing 4 gb of space.

Probably not "missing". could be differences in megabytes = 1 000 000
bytes vs megabytes = 2^20 bytes or formatted vs unformatted capacity.
The drive manufactures lie about these things to make their drives seem
bigger. Of course, they are not really lieing, ust choosing the most
flattering standards ("the wonderful thing about standards is there are so
many to choose from!").

	bjorn