Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100
Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:

> > 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±1.

Yeah, I know the reasoning they use. But the entire world and everyone
in it intuitively expects disk capacity to be measured in units of 2^X

Especially as the disk manufacturers themselves make their disks to
have allocation unit like 512, 1024 and 4096 bytes, not 500, 1000 and
4000

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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com