On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote:

Can you confirm that mb, Mb, and MB are all interchangeable, and are
MegaBytes? My brain hurts!

Your brain hurts? What? Did you have a Nice Visit from the Migraine
Fairy...
  http://www.aperfectworld.org/0106.html

Now I think about it, I should have standardized on MByte,

previous_message.gsub!( /\bmb\b/i, "MByte")

The hardware types around here tend to speak bits for some strange
reason.

The MB abbreviation is coughed up by dd and hdparm.

Sorry.


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