On 02/02/2011 09:56 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Right, that's why there is the "rant" about it being called kilobytes,
but still treated as binary, not decimal unit. But Andreas is right
that it is not necessary to have one paragraph grumbling about the
stupid-sounding kibibytes and so on.
So, what I am going to do is to cope with the standard and use those
stupid-sounding binary prefixes (kibi- etc.), remove the "rant" and add
one line note for people to be really sure that it is meant to be a
binary unit.
Thanks!
-Lukas
Lukas,
I'm glad you did that. I see too often:
Fdisk is broken, I can only put a 150 gigabyte partition on my 160
gigabyte drive.
Hopefully people will realize the difference when they see its a 150
Gibibyte partition on a 160 Gigabyte drive.
That's wishful thinking.
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