Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:04:38 +0100 | From | Simon Arlott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scsi/sd: Fix capacity output to show MB/GB/TB/... |
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On 31/08/08 15:25, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > On Sunday 31 August 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> BTW, I do appreciate Simon's point about df showing a different number. >> How about we print: >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 1099511627776 512-byte hardware sectors (563TB / 512TiB) >> >> (or perhaps a more realistic number ...) >> >> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 976562500000 512-byte hardware sectors (500TB / 455TiB) >> >> It's perhaps a more gentle way of informing our users that they may not >> have quite as much capacity as they thought they had. > > Great idea! As a user/admin I would find this the best one of all. > > 1. All variants given. > 2. Correct scientific units used.
I oppose all the "iB" forms. Has anyone tried pronouncing these? Pee-bee-bytes?
Alternatively we could just remove the part in brackets from the message...
-- Simon Arlott
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