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From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] sfdisk: fix silly mbyte typo
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:32:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8D7EEF.8060601@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F8D7AB3.1010406@bernhard-voelker.de>

On 04/17/2012 03:14 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 04/17/2012 03:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 04/17/2012 09:42 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> Karel Zak wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:22:12PM +0200, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
>>>>> Maybe this is better?
>>>>>
>>>>> -	printf(_("Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes"
>>>>> +	printf(_("Units = 1MiB, blocks of 1024*1024 bytes"
>>
>> Blocks are 1024 bytes in this mode, as confirmed with:
>> sfdisk -uM -l /dev/sda
> 
> I don't understand. What's wrong?
> 
> $ wc -c </dev/sda1
> 12582912000
> 
> $ echo '12582912000 / (1024*1024)' | bc
> 12000
> 
> $ ./sfdisk -uM -l /dev/sda | egrep 'sda1|MiB'
> Units = 1MiB, blocks of 1024*1024 bytes, counting from 0
>    Device Boot Start   End    MiB    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *     1  12000  12000   12288000   83  Linux

Well I thought the "blocks of" was referring to the blocks column,
rather than the units?

$ echo $((12582912000 / 1024))
12288000

cheers,
Pádraig.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-17  8:42 [PATCH] sfdisk (out_partition_header): improve F_MEGABYTE header [WAS: [PATCH 5/8] sfdisk: fix silly mbyte typo] Bernhard Voelker
2012-04-17 13:56 ` [PATCH 5/8] sfdisk: fix silly mbyte typo Pádraig Brady
2012-04-17 14:14   ` Bernhard Voelker
2012-04-17 14:32     ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
2012-04-17 14:48       ` Karel Zak
2012-04-17 14:59         ` Bernhard Voelker
2012-04-18  6:50           ` Bernhard Voelker
2012-04-18 10:46             ` Pádraig Brady
2012-04-23 10:48             ` Karel Zak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-04-16  9:44 Davidlohr Bueso
2012-04-16  9:53 ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-04-16 10:13   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2012-04-16 10:22     ` Voelker, Bernhard
2012-04-16 10:27       ` Karel Zak

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