Tim wrote: > 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. I suppose that someone should also mention that even after they create a file system of a given size it will show up mounted with a size smaller than they might expect. That being owed to creation of super-blocks, etc. In other words, not all bits available on the drive will be usable/seen by the user.
