Desktop Live DVD: diff

[Bill Nottingham]

David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > The image size is 1022 M. 
> 
> This is likely too big, remember drive manufacturers don't really use
> units like KiB MiB or GiB - they use 1K = 1000, 1M = 1,000,000 and 1G =
> 1,000,000,000 - e.g. the SI units.
> 
> It seems to me that most 1GB USB keys have a size of 1GB = 1,000M =
> 1,000,000,000 bytes. Some are 1024MB (1024,000,000,000 bytes), some may
> be a bit smaller (e.g. "value-adds" like the Sandisk U3 "CD-ROM") while
> some may actually be 1024 MiB (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). It varies.

Moreover, the closer you get to the full size, the less space you'll
have for any overlay.

Bill