1 GIG, Correct size [modified]
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What is the correct size of 1 gig? I want to repartition a hard-drive for 3 operating systems. I need to know the correct size so I can multiply it by the amount for each partition. The correct size of my drive is 298 gig(320 manufacturer size). I want to partition it into 3 somewhat equal sizes. Using FDISK, When it asks you to designate the amount of space for a partition, how do you do this? What do you enter?, 1024 * (1/3 of the hard drive space) or (100 GB)Or is it (1,073,741,824,000)?
rspercy 1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 10:29 AM
if your drive is already formatted, then divide the size by 3 and put that as the size for each new partition ? for example, a 750gig drive might be formatted to 720gig, so you will have 3 partitions of 720/3 gig
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Your question does not make a lot of sense to me. I mean 1024 x 1024 x 1024 but that is too small for any operating system I know (even window less linux). [EDIT]On top of that you should be able to specify MB or GB in your partitioning program. Maybe I am wrong on that. I use linux fdisk mostly and have not done this in windows in a long time. Well except at setup but that is in MB.[/EDIT]
John
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 9:11 AM
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if your drive is already formatted, then divide the size by 3 and put that as the size for each new partition ? for example, a 750gig drive might be formatted to 720gig, so you will have 3 partitions of 720/3 gig
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I would make 50GB for each os and a 4th partition of the rest of the disk that the 3 operating systems share.
John
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1 Gigabyte represented by most HD vendors = 1000 Megabytes whereas 1 Gigabyte represented in actual data storage is 1024 Megabytes
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John
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Your question does not make a lot of sense to me. I mean 1024 x 1024 x 1024 but that is too small for any operating system I know (even window less linux). [EDIT]On top of that you should be able to specify MB or GB in your partitioning program. Maybe I am wrong on that. I use linux fdisk mostly and have not done this in windows in a long time. Well except at setup but that is in MB.[/EDIT]
John
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 9:11 AM
John M. Drescher wrote:
Your question does not make a lot of sense to me.
His questions don't make any sense, actually.
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modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 9:03 AM
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What is the correct size of 1 gig? I want to repartition a hard-drive for 3 operating systems. I need to know the correct size so I can multiply it by the amount for each partition. The correct size of my drive is 298 gig(320 manufacturer size). I want to partition it into 3 somewhat equal sizes. Using FDISK, When it asks you to designate the amount of space for a partition, how do you do this? What do you enter?, 1024 * (1/3 of the hard drive space) or (100 GB)Or is it (1,073,741,824,000)?
rspercy 1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 10:29 AM
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1024 to the power 3 I'll leave the rest to you. Multiply is the asterisk key and divide is the / key when using Calculator. Good luck.
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Your question does not make a lot of sense to me. I mean 1024 x 1024 x 1024 but that is too small for any operating system I know (even window less linux). [EDIT]On top of that you should be able to specify MB or GB in your partitioning program. Maybe I am wrong on that. I use linux fdisk mostly and have not done this in windows in a long time. Well except at setup but that is in MB.[/EDIT]
John
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 9:11 AM
ummmm actually 1Gb is plenty of room for almost any linux based OS to install on ;)
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What is the correct size of 1 gig? I want to repartition a hard-drive for 3 operating systems. I need to know the correct size so I can multiply it by the amount for each partition. The correct size of my drive is 298 gig(320 manufacturer size). I want to partition it into 3 somewhat equal sizes. Using FDISK, When it asks you to designate the amount of space for a partition, how do you do this? What do you enter?, 1024 * (1/3 of the hard drive space) or (100 GB)Or is it (1,073,741,824,000)?
rspercy 1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 10:29 AM
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ummmm actually 1Gb is plenty of room for almost any linux based OS to install on ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
I know that live cds work in that small of a footprint but even my VPS containers are 1 to 3 GB so I generally allocate 5GB as a min
jmd0 200 # du -hs /vz/private/200
2.6G /vz/private/200jmd0 200 # du -hs /vz/private/205
1.3G /vz/private/205[EDIT]
jmd0 200 # vzlist
CTID NPROC STATUS IP_ADDR HOSTNAME
200 31 running 192.168.1.240 vs_svn
205 9 running 192.168.1.50 vs_mail200 is a subversion server and 205 is a postfix mail server. [/EDIT]
John
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ummmm actually 1Gb is plenty of room for almost any linux based OS to install on ;)
"mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"
I used to make my own Linux builds taking about 25MB, had X11 (vesa mode), busybox, a kernel, and DotGNU. It could boot into text mode with 16MB RAM. Needed 48MB RAM to run X. Sniff, the good old days :((
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rspercy58 wrote:
1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
(reading tht) it wud be difficult to give an answer
rspercy58 wrote:
multiply it
wouldn't u need to divide the CORRECT size instead of multiply?
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I used to make my own Linux builds taking about 25MB, had X11 (vesa mode), busybox, a kernel, and DotGNU. It could boot into text mode with 16MB RAM. Needed 48MB RAM to run X. Sniff, the good old days :((
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 beta 2 - out now!
((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))16MB? Pah! My phone couldn't run on that these days :D
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ABitSmart wrote:
wouldn't u need to divide the CORRECT size instead of multiply?
Not if he started at bytes and worked his way up :doh:
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What is the correct size of 1 gig? I want to repartition a hard-drive for 3 operating systems. I need to know the correct size so I can multiply it by the amount for each partition. The correct size of my drive is 298 gig(320 manufacturer size). I want to partition it into 3 somewhat equal sizes. Using FDISK, When it asks you to designate the amount of space for a partition, how do you do this? What do you enter?, 1024 * (1/3 of the hard drive space) or (100 GB)Or is it (1,073,741,824,000)?
rspercy 1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 10:29 AM
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What is the correct size of 1 gig? I want to repartition a hard-drive for 3 operating systems. I need to know the correct size so I can multiply it by the amount for each partition. The correct size of my drive is 298 gig(320 manufacturer size). I want to partition it into 3 somewhat equal sizes. Using FDISK, When it asks you to designate the amount of space for a partition, how do you do this? What do you enter?, 1024 * (1/3 of the hard drive space) or (100 GB)Or is it (1,073,741,824,000)?
rspercy 1 + 1 = 186,440....Depending on the species.
modified on Friday, February 6, 2009 10:29 AM
'Base 10' gigabyte (the one hard drive manufacturers use) = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 'Base 2' gigabyte (the one Windows shows you) = 1024 x 1024 x 1024
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'Base 10' gigabyte (the one hard drive manufacturers use) = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 'Base 2' gigabyte (the one Windows shows you) = 1024 x 1024 x 1024
Stuart Dootson wrote:
'Base 10' gigabyte (the one hard drive manufacturers use) = 1000 x 1000 x 1000
They do although that definition is not exact since sectors are 512 bytes not 500.
John