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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Subject: [PATCH] FAQ doesn't cover definition of gigabyte 
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>Number:         59565
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] FAQ doesn't cover definition of gigabyte
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    jcamou
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 21 13:00:33 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 30 00:32:46 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 30 00:32:46 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Lowell Gilbert
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD be-well.ilk.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #55: Sun Nov 16 23:29:37 EST 2003 root@be-well.ilk.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BE-WELL i386

FAQ document

>Description:

This is an addition for the FAQ to handle a question that has been
asked often of late.

>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:




*** book.sgml.ORIG      Thu Nov 20 16:20:40 2003
--- book.sgml   Fri Nov 21 15:52:55 2003
***************
*** 6150,6155 ****
--- 6150,6173 ----
        </qandaentry>
  
        <qandaentry>
+         <question id="manufacturer-disk-size">
+           <para>Why does FreeBSD see my disk as smaller than the
+             manufacturer says it is?</para>
+         </question>
+ 
+         <answer>
+         <para>Disk manufacturers calculate gigabytes as a billion bytes
+           each, whereas FreeBSD calculates them as 1,073,741,824 bytes
+           each. This explains why, for example, FreeBSD's boot messages
+           will report a disk that supposedly has 80GB as holding 
+           76319MB.</para>
+         <para>Also note that FreeBSD will (by default)
+           <link linkend="disk-more-than-full">reserve</link> 8% of the disk
+           space.
+         </answer>
+       </qandaentry>
+ 
+       <qandaentry>
          <question id="disk-more-than-full">
            <para>How is it possible for a partition to be more than 100%
              full?</para>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Siebrand Mazeland" <s.mazeland@xs4all.nl>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
	<freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/59565: [PATCH] FAQ doesn't cover definition of gigabyte
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:08:58 +0100

 Please commit docs/59565. This is an OK patch.
 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->jcamou  
Responsible-Changed-By: jcamou 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Mar 24 23:31:47 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take this pr.      

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=59565 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: jcamou 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 30 00:31:32 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Patch committed with some minor changes, thanks. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=59565 
>Unformatted:
