On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 17:21 -0600, kendrick eastes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Jack Wilborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. I've asked this a few times. Today I purchased a 32G SD card for > > my wife's Nook. It found it's way into my computer and I built a Dreamplug > > boot card on it. > > > > When I was booted, I did a 'df -h' and it reported 29G with some of it > > used. I'm assuming that this shows that the Dreamplug can at least access > > the 32G. > > > > thats normal, the dreamplug/windows thinks of a Gigabyte as > 2^30(1,073,741,824) bytes whereas the marketing department of whoever made > the card thinks of it as 10^9(1,000,000,000) multiply those by 32 and you > get some diffrences
Oddly the marketing department is technically correct[1] although I am sure not intentionally so. Simo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
