Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:52:50 -0800 (PST)
From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon)
Cc: drosih@rpi.edu ('Garance A Drosihn'), wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files
Message-ID: <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174AA@mail.edifecs.com> from Michael VanLoon at "Jan 12, 2000 03:20:39 pm"
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[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I'm sorry but I would find it non-obvious and more confusing. When ls or a > similar disk/memory utility tells me xxxK or xxxM, I would expect it to be > in 2^10 or 2^20 units. To appear otherwise would surprise me. I guess you get suprised a lot then. The only folks that I know of who regulary use K and M as base 10 when talking about disk and memory are the disk drive manufactures. Does you machine have 128MB or 134MB. You must have missed this earlier in the thread.... 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 :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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