Derek Broughton wrote: > Stephan Hermann wrote: > >> as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB >> (reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes == >> 1KByte) > > You should know that this isn't unclear. 1024 Bytes is a KiB, not a KB. > 2TB is 2*10**12 bytes, 2TiB is 2 * 2**40 (I think :-) ) bytes.
This assumes you buy into the SI's naming scheme and can say things like "kibibyte" and "tebibyte" without bursting into giggles or groaning in despair :-) Max.
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