[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP wx8600 and 3 tb (seagate) drives

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On 18 April 2017 at 20:05, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
> But again after each boot (so far) the OS seems to be doing fine and
> sees the full size disks  Or at least 2.73 TB of it. And I'm guessing
> the OS has the rest held for various things.

Disk vendors have always been essentially dishonest on this point.
Their professed notion of capacity is a powers-of-ten terabyte,
whereas computers have traditionally dealt in powers-of-two terabytes
(i.e., 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, etc).  2.73TB is the actual size of a
disk with an advertised capacity of three trillion bytes.


Cheers.

-- 
Joshua M. Clulow
UNIX Admin/Developer
http://blog.sysmgr.org