Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:34:44 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <00Jan14.083445est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:45:45PM %2B1100 References: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174AA@mail.edifecs.com> <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On 2000-Jan-13 16:45:45 +1100, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: >All of the boot time reporting is in 2^20 MB: >ad0: 3079MB (6306048 sectors), 6256 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > >Due the math if you doubt me, oh, and Quantum calls this a 3.2G disk >drive :-) 6256*16*63*512 = 3,228,696,576 ~= 3.2*10^9 or 3079.1*2^20 or 3.007*2^30 Some manufacturers note that `1GB = 10^9 bytes' in the fine print. Quantum can also state (correctly) that they are complying with the SI standard. This is still an improvement on the old approach of quoting _unformatted_ capacity (which is ~50% more). Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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