From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932460AbXAWBEw (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:04:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932583AbXAWBEw (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:04:52 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:53327 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932460AbXAWBEv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:04:51 -0500 To: Andreas Schwab Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Heikki Orsila , Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Tony Foiani , Leon Woestenberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Schwartz Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2) References: <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070121150618.GA11613@zakalwe.fi> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:04:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:24 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Schwab writes: > But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to > disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors. But the manufacturers don't count in sectors. It should be consistent, though. "How many GB of disk space do you need to store 2 GB of USB flash, and how many to store 2 GB RAM image"? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa