Bill Hudacek wrote: > Perhaps this will help: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > In short, it would be best to use "df -H" to get the disk storage > standard of 10^6 for "a MB", rather than "2^20" for MiB. If you want > raw numbers, the closest I think you can come is "df --block-size 1000" > or "df --block-size 1024". > > So...GB is power-of-ten, GiB is power-of-two. You're ahead of the > curve, Craig, don't change back now...! > > [A part of my brain sees "*mebibyte" *and thinks, "WHY do I feel like I > did when 8-track tapes went away, and again when my beloved BetaMax tape > collection became a museum piece?"] > > > -- > Regards, > > Bill Hudacek > > "Redundancy is good; triple redundancy is twice as good!" - me >
If you use 2^x please use the *ibi prefixes, and 10^x use the standard SI prefixes (kilo, mega), will alleviate confusion like this in the future :) Not your fault df reports 2^30 as G/T instead of Gi/Ti ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
