Ipod capacity

I am a rookie ipod user I recently bought a new 60gb ipod, Ive added 2.14gb worth of pictures and music when I click on the ipod icon on itunes it shows that Ive used 2.14gb and there are 53.62gb free. That is a total of 55.76gb what happened to the other 4.24gb.
Please help

Hi Rommel, welcome to Apple Discussions.
This article how Disk sizes are calculated: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60955
In addition to that article, the iPod also reserves disk space for storing the directory information, which determines which files go where.
Hope this helps.

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Mine is a 4gb Mini ipod however in itunes its total capacity is 3.77gb?
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The discrepancy you are noticing is due to the differences in the way that hard drive manufacturers calculate disk capacity and how it is reported by the operating system.
HD manufacturers use a decimal measurement to calculate disk capacity. They consider a gigabyte (GB) to be 1 billion bytes.
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2GB iPod = 1.8GB
4GB iPod = 3.7GB
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30GB iPod = 27.9GB
40GB iPod = 37.2GB
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