Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2014, 14:00:44 schrieb Karel Zak: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:19:25PM -0800, Matthew Eaton wrote: > > Hello, I have a quick question regarding recent fdisk. > > > > I noticed fdisk -l now uses base 2 (GiB) instead of base 10 (GB) to > > calculate device size. This is good, but sometimes it is nice to see > > when sometimes? > > > the base 10 calculation, can this be toggled with a switch? I can't > > find a recent man page for fdisk. > > Frankly, use 10 based calculation in IT is ugly thing, we are not > hard disk device marketing guys... Say you want to divide a 500 GB disk in five equally sized partitions. Thats easier to do with base 10 calculation. 5 x 100 GB = approx. 500 GB. 5 x 100 GiB is more. But anyway, I use LVM these days for most stuff. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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
