On Tue, 19.06.12 16:42, Andre Robatino (robatino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > > Other possibility is to go directly to 1 GiB but we are not sure > > there's advantage (at least not now). > > You would probably want to make the target 1 GB (SI units), not 1 GiB. The > capacity of thumb drives is measured in SI units, so a "1 GB" thumb drive really > is 1000^3 bytes, not 1024^3. (They start out with the binary capacity, but some > fraction of that is used for overhead, leaving some amount between the SI and > binary size. Hence the advertising refers to the SI size.) For those too lazy to calculate the difference between 1 GB and 1 GiB: 1 GB equals 953 MiB. We hence should probably stick to to 950 MiB as new target image size. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
