F-13-Beta Live images are > 700Mib

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Mar 24 18:18:30 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:21 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 09:50 -0400, James Laska wrote:
> 
> > So the new size limit for desktop live images will be 1G or 1Gib?
> 
> 1GiB.  2^30, not 10^9.

Hmm. That seems inconsistent. I believe the idea was to target '1GB' USB
sticks; aren't USB sticks usually sold using the base-10 numbers, for
the same reason as hard disks (to inflate apparent capacity)?

Would a 1 GiB image actually fit on your typical '1GB' USB stick?
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