strange problem with gparted.

[Alan Pope]

On 8 February 2011 11:58, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> I have a strange problem with gparted.
> fdisk tells me:
> Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
..
> /dev/sda (931,52 GiB)

1000.2 GB
931.52 GiB <- Note the i

1000.2 GB / 1024 * 1000 = 976.76 GiB

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte vs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Then there's some overhead of 5 or so percent you're losing. Not sure
where that is.

Al.