MiB in gparted?

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Tue Feb 10 18:15:36 UTC 2009


Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> However, I can't really say that I can see clearly why MiB is necessary
> these days. Why not just skip it and only use MB, GB and so on, really
> meaning MB, GB and so on? All hard drives capacity are in MB, GB or TB
> anyway, not MiB, GiB or TiB.
> 
> What's wrong with saying 65,6 kB instead of 64,0 KiB? My interna drive in
> this old laptop is 160 GB, so why would I say 149 GiB?

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