On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:26 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > > Stephan Hermann wrote: > > > >> as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB > >> (reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes == > >> 1KByte) > > > > You should know that this isn't unclear. 1024 Bytes is a KiB, not a KB. > > 2TB is 2*10**12 bytes, 2TiB is 2 * 2**40 (I think :-) ) bytes. > > This assumes you buy into the SI's naming scheme and can say things like > "kibibyte" and "tebibyte" without bursting into giggles or groaning in > despair :-) > It isn't SI, it's IEEE
Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com
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