2009/6/3 Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk>: > Now that you have yelled till you are blue in the face about disk > manufacturers using proper SI units and therefore we should although > file and filesystem space are still being calculated in base2 > units...may I ask how you plan to report the sizes for flash drives? :-D >
Hardware size: 27.9 GiB (30GB) Hover Tooltip: Hardware manufacturers usually use GB marking. GiB is maximum amount of data a GB marked harddrive can fit. Or You have connected 30GB harddrive, Open it up available space 27.9 GiB, Free space 27.5 GiB. If you use compressed file system (I thought i so somewhere a bzip2 file system) You have connected 30GB harddrive, Available space Appox. 50.4 GiB, Free space Approx. 49.3 GiB. ps. just noticed you have asked about flash-drives, well they are in GB - GiB ranges now so the example is over-optimistic but still aplicable to flash-drives ;-) Good link which compares both scales and has notes of where what is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(data) I was surprised Google Calculator only supports base 2 data units with incorrect SI prefixes..... -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
