On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:27:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 06:30 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:25:28AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > > > CaT wrote: > > > >Because dividing by a multpile of 10 essentially simply moves the > > > >decimal point to the left. The thing that's not bleedingly obvious > > > >there though is that 156290816 is in kibibytes. :) So: > > > > > > > >156290816 * 1024 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000 ~= 160.04 GB :) > > > > > > > >Similar for 468872448. > > > If it's decimal, what's that "1024" doing there and why the odd number > > > "156290816" for a "Kibibyte"? Surely they should ALL be powers of 10? > > > > > > Seems a tad inconsistent to me... > > > > > > Besides... 1024 is "decimal"... 2^10!!! :? > > > > because the sizes are measured in blocks originally, and a block is 1024 > > bytes, which is one KiB but 1.024 KB. > > Sectors are 512 bytes, and blocks (on hard disks) are typically > 4096 bytes (but that's determined when you format the partition, > and is determined at run-time).
But I believe the common filesystems use 1024-byte blocks anyway. At least space measurements seem to be done in blocks. lthough a few years ago I recall that both 512- and 1024 blocks were in use -- very confusing. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
