From: Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:39:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44454E8E.70800@hathawaymix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CDF11F32-D2D3-47EB-8B00-E91614CEA795@isg.si>
Martin Gombac wrote:
> Tnx. for explanation.
> I didn't think that cfdisk uses 1000 instead of 1024.
FYI: the official meaning of kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
http://lwn.net/2002/0103/a/esr-kibi.php3
Interestingly, this means drive manufacturers are not misleading
consumers after all.
Shane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-18 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-18 15:12 [linux-lvm] physical volume smaller than partition? Martin Gombac
2006-04-18 18:00 ` Dieter Stüken
2006-04-18 18:26 ` John Cassidy
2006-04-18 20:30 ` Martin Gombac
2006-04-18 20:39 ` Shane Hathaway [this message]
2006-04-18 23:18 ` David Brown
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