>> (Depressing that Debian has bought into disk manufcaturers' attempts
>> to redefine the gigabyte... [...]
> In their defense, SI defines GB as 10^9 and IEEE calls 2^30 GiB to
> differentiate.

The SI and the IEEE don't get to redefine megabytes and gigabytes any
more than disk manufacturerrs do.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Q/quantifiers.html

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