DL380 G4 logical drive without 4Gb partition

[dporrelli]

i have a DL380 G4 with 2 x 72.8Gb drives, whenever I try to get it to create a logical drive, it allocates 4Gb for something reducing disk size to 67.8 for each drive.

Is there anyway of creating the logical drives without this 4Gb being stolen?

Thanks

 

[nickpark]

I thought this was just because disk makers advertise their drives with capacity in a special marketing/literal form of Gigabyte, being 1 billion bytes. Therefore making disks look bigger than they are.

But, the computer gigabyte is 1024Mb = 1024*1024Kb = 1024 * 1024 * 1024bytes = 1073741824 bytes.

So your disk actually has (72.8 billion) 72800000000 / 1073741824 bytes capacity which is 67.8Gb