[ILUG] Disk size inconsistency

[Colm Buckley]

> I just got a new 6490MB hard disk for my laptop, or so the bios
> settings tells me. When I load up fdisk on the other hand, I'm told
> its a ~6189MB hard disk.

6189MB = 6,489,636,864 bytes.  Disk size MB are usually "millions of
bytes" while fdisk uses 1MB = 1,048,576 = 2^20 bytes.

           Colm

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