[mdlug] T61 Thinkpad Recovery Partition

Raymond McLaughlin driveray at ameritech.net
Sun Feb 10 19:54:16 EST 2008


Peter Bart wrote:

> 	Okay, I partitioned it with fdisk, using all available sectors. ie the
> last partition; /home or sda9 used up whatever was left. With fdisk v I
> found out there are still 5475 unallocated sectors. 12'161 were
> allocated to partitions sda1-9. The install still only reports 93GB
> available. Am I on the right track with GRUB?
> 
> Best Regards,

Before you knock yourself out looking for a phantom partition, have you
considered that sometimes
  100GB = 100*1000*1000*1000 = 100,000,000,000B
and some times
   93GB =  93*1024*1024*1024 =  99,857,989,632B
which rounds to 99.9GB or 100GB when counted the first way?




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