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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