On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:32:15PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > 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 yep, my +1 was about s/mebibytes/MiB/, I have overlooked the 1024*1024 math in the patch. Pádraig is right, (s)fdisk uses 1024 byte blocks in output (probably too keep things more confusing ;-) Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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