From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965014AbXAWNOM (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:14:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965024AbXAWNOM (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:14:12 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58853 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965014AbXAWNOL (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:14:11 -0500 To: Andreas Schwab Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Heikki Orsila , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121150618.GA11613@zakalwe.fi> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:14:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:23:32 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Schwab writes: > The exact number of sectors is often printend on the label. Sure, I'd even say "almost always" for recent disks. Still, they count in GBs, not sectors. OTOH it would be great if they say "xxx,xxx,xxx 512-byte sectors", and maybe "approx. X GB". -- Krzysztof Halasa