120gb hd shows up as 111.81 gb hd in gparted

g3npirate · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 48

i ran fdisk /dev/hdb and listed the partition table and got this :

disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/hdb 1 14596 117242338+ 83 Linux

after i saw this i ran gparted again and checked /dev/hdb, it says i only have a 111.81 gb drive, any good idea why so?

drizek · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:17 am Post subject:

When they advertise the size of the hard drive, 1gb=1000mb. For the OS however, 1gb=1024mb.

This is perfectly normal.
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broken_chaos · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:

To elaborate using your fdisk byte count...

120060444672 * 1K/1024
=117246528K * 1M/1024K
=114498.5625M * 1G/1024M
=111.81500244140625G
~=111.8G