"Dat Head" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=100 bs=1024k > 100+0 records in > 100+0 records out > 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 0.00933139 seconds, 11.2 GB/s > ---------------------------^^^ should be 100 MB
No, "MB" means megabytes (i.e., 10**6 bytes). I guess you want mebibytes (i.e., 2**20 bytes), but the standard abbreviation for that is "MiB", not "MB". See <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>. It might be reasonable to add support for binary multiples to "dd", but for media the decimal numbers are probably more useful. As you mentioned, most media are measured in decimal multiples nowadays. My favorite was the old "1.44 MB" floppy, which contained 1.44 * 1024 * 1000 bytes. Almost anything is better than that sort of confusion! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
