When creating a new partition in fdisk, if using +sizeK (e.g.
+1000K) the final size is calculated by
"size * 1024" (it means KiB)
but if using +sizeM:
"size * 1000000" (it means MB)
See code:
switch (*line_ptr) {
case 'c':
case 'C':
if (!display_in_cyl_units)
i *= heads * sectors;
break;
case 'K':
absolute = 1024;
break;
case 'k':
absolute = 1000;
break;
case 'm':
case 'M':
absolute = 1000000;
break;
case 'g':
case 'G':
absolute = 1000000000;
break;
default:
break;
}
if (absolute) {
unsigned long long bytes;
unsigned long unit;
bytes = (unsigned long long) i * absolute;
unit = sector_size * units_per_sector;
bytes += unit/2; /* round */
bytes /= unit;
i = bytes;
}
It seems like a chaos between KiB, MiB, (2^N) and kB, MB, GB, (10^N).
Does anyone understand this code? I don't believe it's a bug -- it's
too stupid...
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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