[ale] proper way to reformat a hard drive?

[Liberie F. Cunha-Neto]

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Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> 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
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