Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table

Thomas E. Spanjaard tgen at netphreax.net
Wed Mar 7 02:14:10 PST 2007


randux at noreply.org wrote:
We'll work on a fictitious 120GB drive, which is really not 120GB but 
rather 120x10**9 bytes in size.
A 120GB disk really is 120GB, which is 120*10^9. G is for giga, which is 
10^9, not 2^30. That's Gi: gibi, or giga-binary. See 
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html and 
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html .

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
        tgen at netphreax.net
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