Recently i installed timeshift for backup system recovery....it ate up half of the drive and i decided to uninstall timeshift.... and i decided to clean up the system as well by referring to some sites.... after a full cleaning i checked the gparted application for free space details... it showed me 65.7 GB FREE... BUT THE ORIGINAL SPACE I ALLOCATED WAS 70 GB for home folder.... where is that remaining 4.3 gigs of space?? i checked all folders but there is no additional file.... how come it occupied 4.3 gigs of space without my concent, is that a virus in my pc, i recently checked web about the ubuntu system installation files which are installed only in /(root) folder.....
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Calculate Hard Drive Size in Bytes Two different mathematical systems are used to define how much information can be stored on the hard disk drive of your computer: binary or base-2 mathematics and base-10 mathematics.
- In the binary or base-2 system used by the operating system, 1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes.
- In the base-10 system used by hard disk drive manufacturers, 1 gigabyte (GB) is equal to 1,000,000,000 bytes (rather than the 1,073,741,824 bytes, as listed above).
This discrepancy in reporting drive sizes (base-2 vs. base-10) may lead you to believe that you have a hard disk drive of less than expected capacity if you compare the figure reported by the operating system with the figure reported by your documentation, although the actual hard drive size is identical.
These two mathematical systems produce 2 different numbers but actually the stored space reported by each of them is the same.
If you have noticed this discrepancy, refer to the table below.
BASE-10 BASE-2
36GB 34.3GB
40GB 38.1GB
73GB 69.6GB
80GB 76.3GB
100GB 95.4GB
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