The following reply was made to PR docs/177457; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]> To: Jason Unovitch <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: docs/177457: diskinfo(8): diskinfo -v shows inacurate drive size Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:05:07 -0700 In message <[email protected]>, you wrote: >Isn't this the classic case of the OS using a base of 1024 to calculate >size and the hard drive manufacturer using 1000 for the same purpose? I do not believe so, no. It has been awhile since I filed this PR, but I believe that the non-matching numbers I was looking at were sector counts... NOT byte counts. The number of sectors on a drive is the number of sectors on that drive. It should not be different between different tools one might use to look at that number. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
