From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2uXI-0001YK-Km for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:10:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E78FE0874; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7432CE085A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Mar 2012 01:09:04 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-93.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.93] by mail.gmx.net (mp038) with SMTP; 01 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18dizE+z8UdS+dmKY4vx9/LprW1oYEr504DLE37KT qEpy6IcxndDIOe Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120301010904.GB6178@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> <4F4D75F5.20603@gmail.com> <20120229020141.0417c547@weird.wonkology.org> <4F4D8F95.7050307@gmail.com> <20120229061705.6389a386@digimed.co.uk> <4F4DCF4D.4090608@gmail.com> <20120229112311.7b70ab0d@khamul.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9zSXsLTf0vkW971A" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120229112311.7b70ab0d@khamul.example.com> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: e0ddc11b-014c-4f60-ba05-fd2bdbdced47 X-Archives-Hash: 5cb660d7613bd69a77bb9beab24a5857 --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:23:11AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > So, cfdisk is happy with the change but nothing else seems to see it. > > What am I missing here? Where did the 50Gbs go to? > >=20 > > Dale > >=20 > > :-) :-) > >=20 >=20 > Nowhere. >=20 > Disk manufacturers measure kilos of data as 1000 > Everyone else measures it in 1024 Well, to nitpick, they say it correctly, as for their "kilo", 10^3 bytes is correct. We, the binary folk, assert kilo to be 2^10 bytes which is actually called kibi, but we still use "kilo" in our everyday language thanks to historical ballast (and because, as I recently heard, the -bi units aren't around that long yet). First time I heard of them was in uni lecture ~2003= =C2=B11. > They do this because it fudges disk sizes to appear 2.4% bigger than > they really are.=20 >=20 > When you get into TB drives, it gets worse as 1024*1024*1024*1024 > differs from 1000*1000*1000*1000 bu a lot more than 2.4% By 1.024^4, which is 1.0995 to be precise. Those swines are stealing almost 10% from us. :o) --=20 Gru=C3=9F | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. =E2=80=9CDon't put multiple statements on a single line unless you have som= ething to hide.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 Linux Torvalds, Linux kernel coding style docum= entation --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9OzC8ACgkQGafpl66MV0ww3gCeOa7ANgpjmtxQoFLyeIsD0iVD UFYAoJL1rs7MaR7t6IEMQCTEeHUF9zsa =ey+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9zSXsLTf0vkW971A--