On 04/17/2012 03:14 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > 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 Well I thought the "blocks of" was referring to the blocks column, rather than the units? $ echo $((12582912000 / 1024)) 12288000 cheers, Pádraig. -- 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