From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 13 13:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (border.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4F514E6D for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:42:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <40323>; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:34:45 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files In-reply-to: <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>; from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net on Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:45:45PM +1100 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Jan14.083445est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174AA@mail.edifecs.com> <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:34:44 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2000-Jan-13 16:45:45 +1100, "Rodney W. Grimes" 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