That is, until one defrags. Take care, Sina -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of black ares Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:11 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Calculating a Kilobyte you are right, but as anyone said, a block has a fixed size and a file can niot fill all of its bloks if you have the block size 4096 bytes and you have a file of 12289 bytes you will have 4 bloks but only a byte from the 4th block will be used, the rest of 4095 will be free, but no other file can use them because this is a block of the specified file. so infact the file will have on the hdd 16384 bytes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:08 AM Subject: Re: Calculating a Kilobyte > Don't you mean data is stored in blocks of a fixed size? Or is there a new > paradigm since my active time on this stuff? A block was a multiple of a > kilobyte. A file was so many blocks. The blocks didn't need to be > contiguous. The mapping to blocks was completely transparent to the end > user. > Sina -- you're still in academia studying the current state of data > storage. > I have not runto anything referring to blocks on windows, so maybe it was > just a unix-ism. > Anyone have an idea what the truth is? Just curious. > TIA > --le > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:33 PM > Subject: Re: Calculating a Kilobyte > > > Also, > > On a harddrive there is used space, free space and wasted space. Since > information is stored on a disk in sectors there are times that a small > amount of information takes up a large amount of space. > > For instance, a file that is 123 bytes in size may take up 4096 bytes > because two files cannot be stored in the same sector. > > The rule is that a single file can be stored in many sectors, but two > files > cannot be stored in any one sector. > > HTH, > Everett > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:17 PM > Subject: RE: Calculating a Kilobyte > > >> You're being caught by the fact that harddrive manufacturers measure a >> megabyte as 1,000,000 bytes, and your 188 gigabytes is being given to you >> in >> terms of a gigabyte being 1,024 megabytes which are 1,024 killabytes >> which >> are 1,024 bytes. >> >> Take care, >> Sina >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hayden's >> Harness >> Attachment >> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 5:01 PM >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Calculating a Kilobyte >> >> I have an external USB Hard Drive. That says ihave 188GB free. The >> kilobytes >> are 202,016,489,472. Dividing this by 188GB, gives 1,074,555,795. Huh? I >> thought 1MB was 1,024,576. >> >> Angus MacKinnon >> Infoforce Services >> http://www.infoforce-services.com >> >> "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into >> the light." - Helen Keller >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at >> //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind >> >> > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind