-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-09-02 11:04, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:12:35 +1000, Basil Chupin <> wrote:
I suggest that you look at how the KBs are counted by the manufacturer and then the OS. If I recall correctly, HD mfgrers use something like ~1458 bytes (or something) = 1Kb.
No, they use 1KB = 1000 B - which is the correct usage.
In one of my Windows (ex-windows ie :-) ) applications the "normal" count was 1024 bytes = 1Kb but I altered the setting to give me a "true" count of 1000 bytes = 1Kb so that I always knew where I stood.
The only true thing about that is that you follow the disc manufacturers. Sizes in computerland are still powers of 2 i.e 2^^n.
Yes, but the name has changed. 1024 Bytes is now one kibibyte, abbreviated 1 KiB. And 1 KB is now exactly 1000 bytes, following the same rule as for any other unit of measurement (SI). It is IEEE 1541 standard. Also IEC 60027. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix ]> Starting in about 2000, a number of standards and trade organizations approved standards and recommendations for a new set of binary prefixes, proposed earlier by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), that would refer unambiguously to powers of 1024. According to these, the SI prefixes would only be used in the decimal sense, even when referring to data storage capacities: kilobyte and megabyte would denote one thousand bytes and one million bytes respectively (consistent with SI), while new terms such as kibibyte, mebibyte and gibibyte, abbreviated KiB, MiB, and GiB, would denote 1024 bytes, 1048576 bytes, and 1073741824 bytes respectively.[1] ]> ]> In practice, the IEC binary prefixes have seen little use by the press or the US computing industry and marketplace. However, they are starting to appear in the EU computing industry and marketplace (as required by EU law since 2007),[2][3] certain US and International Government contexts (as required by contract or internal policy),[4] and popular free and open source software such as Linux.[5] We should make sure that all our software and documentation adheres to the standard, so that confusions such as the OP is experiencing do not arise again. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx/g2EACgkQU92UU+smfQWvDACdElnubWDy0EGl6rsmgQSOcRVH 0TwAnje5uB4tUaQtGQIySiQhzb8fm/z3 =Uopx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org