Problem is that discfree is not accurate at all ... 4,194,304 is the real
athematical answer for this question ...

Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany





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                Using the output from discfree a '4 gigabyte' disc has
16,776,624 sectors. Using 256 bytes to a sector this gives 4,294,815,74=
4
bytes. So I guess that means 4,194,156 sectors to 1 gigabyte - unless
someone has a more accurate figure.
                Tony Cousins - Director of IS - Optek Technology, Inc

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                                From:   Mike Bundy [SMTP:[log in to unmask]
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                        I have a simple question, I'm almost embarrasse=
d to
ask it.=A0 How many sectors of disk space equals one gigabyte ?





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