On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:15:19 pm Remco wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <maco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 31 May 2009 9:12:37 pm Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Disk storage is expressed in multiples of 1024 under any > >> operating system. > > > > Are you sure? Usually I see Windows users in #ubuntu complaining that Ubuntu > > only sees 112GB of their 120GB drive while Windows sees all 120GB. > > Take a look at the properties of a file in Nautilus. It will tell you > a file is x MB, and y bytes. > > I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if > it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 701200000 bytes. So that's > clearly base 2, which should be MiB.
I was disagreeing with the "under any" since AFAIK, Windows uses 1000 while Ubuntu does indeed use 1024. I'll take your word for it that Nautilus leaves out the i in GiB since I don't have it installed (KDE here). -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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