missing piece of HDD while installed F7 for thinkpad T61

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
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.

-- 
[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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