[Fedora] Re: large disk space problem?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 15:02 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> >>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
> > On reading that, it seems to me that IEC didn't redefine anything, 
> > they sought to correct the earlier mistake and introduce
> alternative 
> > terminology.
>     You are correct in that they didn't redefine anything.  They're 
> trying to point out that kilo = kilo (10^3), and kibi = 2^10.  What I 
> meant with redefining is, what people *think* a kilo is when it comes
> to 
> computer terms.  Wrong choice of words.
> 
One note. Disk sizes unlike RAM sizes do not have to be powers of 2.
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