Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > to expand on this: hard disk vendors lie to the customers. when you > buy an "80 GB" disk you actually buy 80 * 1000 ^ 3 (Lowell, I don't think > drive got *that* big yet :), not 80 * 1024 ^ 3. > > American hd buyers might try a class action lawsuit. :)
No doubt the lawyers would bring in Expert Witnesses saying that a GB is 10^9 bytes. And they'd be right. And wrong. I noticed Linux boot msgs giving sizes in "MiB", etc. Maybe a good idea, but it's ugly and I'd prefer an official FreeBSD dictionary for such things wherein GB = 2^30 in all docs, msgs, and source. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
