On 04/17/2012 03:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 04/17/2012 09:42 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: >> Karel Zak wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:22:12PM +0200, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: >>>> Maybe this is better? >>>> >>>> - printf(_("Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes" >>>> + printf(_("Units = 1MiB, blocks of 1024*1024 bytes" > > Blocks are 1024 bytes in this mode, as confirmed with: > sfdisk -uM -l /dev/sda I don't understand. What's wrong? $ wc -c </dev/sda1 12582912000 $ echo '12582912000 / (1024*1024)' | bc 12000 $ ./sfdisk -uM -l /dev/sda | egrep 'sda1|MiB' Units = 1MiB, blocks of 1024*1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 12000 12000 12288000 83 Linux Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html