MiB in gparted?
Smoot Carl-Mitchell
smoot at tic.com
Tue Feb 10 20:47:21 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 15:07 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Because base-10 prefixes are totally disconnected from the way computers
> actually operate. For instance, you'll never (disclaimer: never say
> never) find a 500 byte block size.
Except perhaps on an old IBM mainframe somewhere. You had control over
the blocksize on those old drives. :-)
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