From: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Eaton <m.eaton82@gmail.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk units size
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 15:14:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2572315.jG5ZmGVWTg@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141204130044.GH1994@x2.net.home>
Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2014, 14:00:44 schrieb Karel Zak:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:19:25PM -0800, Matthew Eaton wrote:
> > Hello, I have a quick question regarding recent fdisk.
> >
> > I noticed fdisk -l now uses base 2 (GiB) instead of base 10 (GB) to
> > calculate device size. This is good, but sometimes it is nice to see
>
> when sometimes?
>
> > the base 10 calculation, can this be toggled with a switch? I can't
> > find a recent man page for fdisk.
>
> Frankly, use 10 based calculation in IT is ugly thing, we are not
> hard disk device marketing guys...
Say you want to divide a 500 GB disk in five equally sized partitions. Thats
easier to do with base 10 calculation. 5 x 100 GB = approx. 500 GB. 5 x 100
GiB is more.
But anyway, I use LVM these days for most stuff.
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 0:19 fdisk units size Matthew Eaton
2014-12-04 13:00 ` Karel Zak
2014-12-04 14:14 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2014-12-04 16:59 ` Matthew Eaton
2014-12-08 21:35 ` fdisk units size & disk manufacturers buying the standard Linda Walsh
2014-12-08 22:53 ` Felix Miata
2014-12-09 21:17 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-01-05 22:17 ` Phillip Susi
2015-01-08 0:21 ` Linda Walsh
2015-01-08 3:56 ` Phillip Susi
2015-01-08 6:31 ` Peter Cordes
2015-01-09 2:37 ` Linda Walsh
2015-01-09 9:16 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2015-01-09 14:59 ` Phillip Susi
2015-01-10 0:29 ` Linda Walsh
2015-01-12 18:50 ` Phillip Susi
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