The total capacity of an optical or magnetic disk isn't based on the
size of its sectors. It's based on fitting the maximum number of bits
in the surface area of a given circle. They aren't going to throw away
storage space just to make it an even multiple of the nearest power of
2.
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
How is it beneficial to display this disk to the user as "149 GB", or
152,627 MB"? What advantage is there to this convention? How does this
make things more intuitive or convenient for the user?
"160.0 GB" makes a lot more sense to me. Likewise "500 GB" for a
500107862016 bytes disk, and "8.0 GB" for 8040480256 bytes.
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Lucid reads file size wrong
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538165
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