Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:44:09 GMT | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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[OT] man-pages-1.46 was released an hour ago or so.
Cameron Simpson asks:
> Just out of curiosity, is there anywhere in the kernel space > where KB (et al) is _not_ used to mean a power of 2 value?
Disk sizes are given in decimal, so in the boot message
hda: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache ...
the MB denotes (decimal) megabytes, while the KiB denotes (binary) kibibytes. Yes, the parenthetical parts are pleonastic both times.
Andries
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