305 GB hard drive reduced to 266 GB (why?)

[Peter]

Le Vendredi 2 Février 2007 19:41, Peter A. Giessel a écrit :
> On 2007/02/02 15:18, Peter seems to have typed:
> > So now my question becomes "Where does FreeBSD get 289 from 305?".
>
> Well, for one thing, you never have 305GB.  1024MB = 1GB.

As I said, I already accounted for that.  320 000 / 1024 = 305 GB.

> You only had 298GB UNFORMATTED.  Formatted, you had 289GB.  With
> 8% reserve, you're down to 266GB.

You think the formatting takes up the missing 16 GB (305 - 289)?

PM