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FastTurtle
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 Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2002 5:01 pm Post subject: Setting Size in FDISK |
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Many do not realize that you can specify a partition size with FDISK.
How you ask? It's quite simple. After telling fdisk to create the new partition, when it asks for the end, type a plus symbol followed by a number with a capital letter on the end.
 Example +500M creates a 500 meg partition. Do not use K as that is for Kilobytes. In order to create a partition of 1 gig or larger add 0. EG: +5000M would create a 5 gig partition. |
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huhmz
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| Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Or +5G to save a few keystrokes  |
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digicosm
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| huhmz wrote: | | Or +5G to save a few keystrokes |
Would "5G" provide 5,120 megabytes? Or 5,000?
The power-of-two thing always confuses me... |
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arkane
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| Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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1024 Bytes = Kilobyte
1024 Kilobyte = Megabyte
1024MB = 1 GIG
People usually round them off to the nearest thousand, but it's officially done like so. the +5G is just done to make it easy on the user. In actuality it would be 5,120MB. |
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