On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:32, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-11 16:57, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 14:42, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> (Note that kB, MB and GB all refer to powers of 1000, not 1024. > >> This is standard SI nomenclature.) > > > > Actually, for dd the units are CS (1024, 1024 * 1024, 1024 * 1024 * > > 1024, resp.). > > Oh, good grief, Randall, please read the damn manpage: > > " BLOCKS and BYTES may be followed by the following > multiplicative suffixes: xM M, c 1, w 2, b 512, kB 1000, K 1024, MB > 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, GB 1000*1000*1000, G 1024*1024*1024, > and so on for T, P, E, Z, Y."
Correct. I didn't spot that paragraph and just tried a few experiments. I still don't get why its authors didn't recognize lower-case 'm' as equivalent to upper-case 'M'. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
