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  • J John M Drescher

    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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    Michael Schubert
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    John M. Drescher wrote:

    Your question does not make a lot of sense to me.

    His questions don't make any sense, actually.

    You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein

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    • R rspercy65

      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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      John M Drescher
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      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte[^]

      John

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      • B Baconbutty

        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.

        My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

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        l a u r e n
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        ooooooooooooooooooo harsh! :cool:

        "mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them"

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        • J John M Drescher

          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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          l a u r e n
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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"

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          • R rspercy65

            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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            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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            • L l a u r e n

              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"

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              John M Drescher
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              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/200

              jmd0 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_mail

              200 is a subversion server and 205 is a postfix mail server. [/EDIT]

              John

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              • L l a u r e n

                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"

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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 :((

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                • A ABitSmart

                  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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                  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:

                  Check out the CodeProject forum Guidelines[^]

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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))

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                    MidwestLimey
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                    16MB? Pah! My phone couldn't run on that these days :D

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                    • L Lost User

                      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:

                      Check out the CodeProject forum Guidelines[^]

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                      :omg:

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                      • R rspercy65

                        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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                        Lost User
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                        Depends on whether you're in marketing or not.

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                        • R rspercy65

                          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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                          Stuart Dootson
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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

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                          • S Stuart Dootson

                            '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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                            John M Drescher
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                            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

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