MiB in gparted?

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> I am one of those who think it's important to separate MB from MiB (and 
> GB from GiB etc etc), just for the simple reason that there is a big 
> difference. It's not htat hard either: 1 MB = 10⁶ bytes = 1000000 bytes, 
> 1 MiB = 2²⁰ bytes = 1048576 bytes.

	Agreed.

> 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?

	Because 10GB is a fair amount of storage space. Who wants to pay 
for/plan on space that they're not getting?

> Just skip the binary prefixes and use the good old decimal ones. It's 
> not that complicated for anyone with a brain.

	No comment...

> And, as a parallel in the "real" world, I still don't understand why 
> people say things like 325800 km rather than 325.8 Mm, which is the same 
> thing but the latter is shorter and better.

	Not exactly a parallel. MiB vs. MB has to do with the various ways bits 
& bytes are counted; decimal & binary.
	Meters are meters, always decimal.

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