QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size for Netinst

[He Rui]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 02:30 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> ----- "Andre Robatino" <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > James Laska <jlaska <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > I believe the {netinst,boot}.iso are intended to fit on a 700M cdr.
> > 
> > I edited
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size
> > 
> > to indicate that netinst should be CD-sized.  I'd like to delete the
> > examples,
> > which all use "ls -sh", due to the possibility for confusion between
> > IEC values
> > (which are displayed by default) and SI values (which require the --si
> > option).
> >  The upper size limits are already given as exact numbers of bytes, so
> > people
> > can just use "ls -l" (which is easier to remember and not subject to
> > rounding/truncation errors).  Is this okay?
> 
> I'm not sure which way it is easier to compare it :) But go ahead and try
> it and we will see.
> 
> Quite interestingly, 'ls -s --si' (without -h) prints rounded numbers 
> (like 400M) instead of precise numbers, at least for me. That's really 
> not ideal.

--si is likewise -h, just use powers of 1000 not 1024(see 'ls' manual).

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