Silly question regarding "du" and "df".

Marius Gedminas marius at pov.lt
Fri Jan 26 13:45:07 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> That may be a difference in units.  1G can mean 1000000000 bytes, or it
> can mean 1073741824 bytes.  73.4 metric gigabytes = 78.8 binary
> gigabytes (or "gibibytes", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte).

Aargh, of course I meant *78.8* metric gigabytes = *73.4* binary
gigabytes.

Marius Gedminas
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