On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 18:42 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Whenever you buy a hard drive, the rating you see on the package is > MiB, not MB - in other words, the system where there are 1,000,000 > Bytes in a "MegaByte". The other way around... MB is decimal MegaByte (1 million bytes) MiB is binary MebiByte (1024 kilobytes) The response was partially correct in that hard drives aren't always written how you expect. Hard drive manufacturers generally use the decimal value, simply because it gives a bigger number. They also sometimes round the figure off. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
