Re: Determining maximum partition size on a hard disk

From: Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 07:53:29 EST

At 13:23 28/08/01, Guest section DW wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Nick DeClario wrote:
> > I thought maybe Linux set 1MB=1000k but that doesn't seem to case.
>
>Well, 1 M = 1000 k by definition of the SI system of units.
>This has nothing to do with Linux.
>But if you are confused about units, just compute in bytes.

While it is true that M = 10^6 and k = 10^3, surely that doesn't apply to
byte quantities?!? At least I have always interpreted 1 Megabyte = 1024
kilobytes = 1024*1024 bytes, and I think the poster meant the same when
writing 1MB = 1000k...

If we are nitpicking, he probably should have written 1MiB = 1000kiB. [Feel
free to correct me if I am wrong, but IIRC, Mi and ki are the abbreviations
for 2^10 multiples rather than 10^3...]

Anton 

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