Re: 2.6.17-2-mac disk size calculation question
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Larry Moore wrote:
> When 2.2.25-mac boots, it reports that my 17850264 512-byte sectors /dev/sdb
> is 8715 MB in size,
> but 2.6.17-2-mac says it is 9139 MB. I've run (tried) the 2.6 and it reports
> this each time.
That's correct: 17850264*512 bytes = 9139335168 bytes = 9139 MB.
Old kernels printed values in MiB, but printed `MB' instead of `MiB'.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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