On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:49:35AM -0400, der Mouse wrote: [...] > > SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 16.4 GB ATA SanDisk SDCFX3-1 > > SCSI1 (0,1,0) (sdb) - 240.1 GB ATA OWC Mercury Extr > > I note 16.4 versus 16007; this reinforces my theory - 16007*1000*1024 > is 16391.168, which would reasonably round off to 16.4 thousand. > (Depressing that Debian has bought into disk manufcaturers' attempts to > redefine the gigabyte... [...]
In their defense, SI defines GB as 10^9 and IEEE calls 2^30 GiB to differentiate. Ugly, perhaps, but IEC, NIST et al are in support. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte There has been constant debate within Debian on unit correctness in output of various tools, some of which are stuck dealing with a two-character limitation on unit columns and thus open to unfortunate vaguery. In most cases this isn't a Debian decision so much as trying to wrangle a consensus out of thousands of upstream software authors (like herding cats, but worse)... fungi@yig:~$ ls -l xyzzy -rw-r--r-- 1 fungi fungi 91802764 Aug 12 2008 xyzzy fungi@yig:~$ ls -hl xyzzy -rw-r--r-- 1 fungi fungi 88M Aug 12 2008 xyzzy fungi@yig:~$ ls -hl --si xyzzy -rw-r--r-- 1 fungi fungi 92M Aug 12 2008 xyzzy fungi@yig:~$ du -h xyzzy 88M xyzzy fungi@yig:~$ du -h --si xyzzy 92M xyzzy fungi@yig:~$ df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 976773184 132157824 844615360 14% / fungi@yig:~$ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 932G 127G 806G 14% / fungi@yig:~$ df -h --si / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 1.1T 136G 865G 14% / http://wiki.debian.org/ConsistentUnitPrefixes http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/06/thrd2.html#00700 http://bugs.debian.org/370702 http://bugs.debian.org/534408 http://bugs.debian.org/594004 [...ad nauseum...] -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); AIM(dreadazathoth); } _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
