Messages in this thread |  | | From | Robert Glamm <> | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB (fwd) | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:38:01 -0600 (CST) |
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> >>> I like the disk size message in sd.c but since > >> 1MB == 1024*1024 == 2^20, > >> > >> It isn't as simple as that. > >> > >> 1MB of RAM is, indeed, equal to 1024*1024 bytes. > >> But 1.44MB floppy has 1.44*1000*1024 bytes. > >> With hard disks, your mileage may vary. > > > I think that linux should report what's true, not what the > > marketers shove down our throats. A megabyte is 2^20, it > > should be reported as such. > > People expect a disk MB to be 10^6 now, so maybe Linux should > do what people expect. With 2^20, it looks like Linux makes > disks get smaller.
WHO expects disk MB to be 10^6 now (or GB = 10^9)? The last thing I want is improper size reporting from df, du, or fdisk. RAM will always be 2^10 = 1K, 2^20 = 1M, 2^30 = 1G, etc.; why have two amounts for the same name? If you got 10^9 bytes of RAM for your machine it would probably whine pretty hard about that last unfilled MB.
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