missing piece of HDD while installed F7 for thinkpad T61
Tim
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Wed Aug 22 06:28:56 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:55 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> since time immemorial, 1 megabyte always contained 1024 kilobytes,
> and 1 gigabyte always contained 1024 megabytes.
>
> Thankfully, 1 kilobyte is still 1024 bytes, in disk-speak.
'fraid not... What MB has really meant has been ambiguous for donkey's
years, if not right from the beginning. Likewise, with kB. That's why
we have MiB *and* KiB (amongst others) to remove the ambiguity, they
both have absolute meanings not open to misinterpretation.
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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
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