Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:37:11 -0600 From: "DaleCo Help Desk" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit Message-ID: <02f401c286a5$d5ffeb80$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <000d01c28629$b07935f0$0200a8c0@bartxp> <87wunp6ply.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit > > At 2002-11-07T06:48:32Z, "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> writes: > > >> 1200*1MB == 1.2GB, does it not? > > > Yes, it does not. > > > Usually, when talking computers, people use 2^10 which = 1024. So 1200 > > MB = 1.17 GB. Anyone correct me if I am wrong. > > I'm willing to call 1.17 as 1.2 for the sake of this thread, which started > with the statement that 1200*1MB was breaking the 1TB limit. I think that > 1.2GB is roughly as much smaller than 1TB as is 1.17GB, so I'm content with > the rounding in this context. :) > -- > Kirk Strauser > In Googlis non est, ergo non est. Well, to be as nitpicky as both of y'all are, the thread didn't *start* with the statement "1200*1MB is too big"---looks from here as if that was the _fifth_ post. Does make you wonder, though, why we don't make *more* mistakes than we do, typing M when we meant G..... Kirk, I still like you sig....have you applied for copyright? Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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