QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size for Netinst

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Thu Aug 12 06:30:44 UTC 2010


----- "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.


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