Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:10:02 GMT From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/177457: diskinfo(8): diskinfo -v shows inacurate drive size Message-ID: <201306242110.r5OLA2Q1020510@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/177457; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: Jason Unovitch <jason.unovitch@gmail.com> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/177457: diskinfo(8): diskinfo -v shows inacurate drive size Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:05:07 -0700 In message <51C876FF.4030302@gmail.com>, you wrote: >Isn't this the classic case of the OS using a base of 1024 to calculate >size and the hard drive manufacturer using 1000 for the same purpose? I do not believe so, no. It has been awhile since I filed this PR, but I believe that the non-matching numbers I was looking at were sector counts... NOT byte counts. The number of sectors on a drive is the number of sectors on that drive. It should not be different between different tools one might use to look at that number.
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