Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:07:08 -0700 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder? Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkKtza56hjeE-ng_nx7wLTJ4BhPQ_EOa7dRybvTBp4rnw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120614081107.c0439718.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAD2Ti2-%2BD1og9TS8E-vJO2fPg77SRGW%2BXq6bFq0kpOnR=fs0aw@mail.gmail.com> <20120614081107.c0439718.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 13 June 2012 23:11, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:33:50 -0400, grarpamp wrote: >> > The following creates a file with a size of 1024000002 (a gig) >> > fseek(stdout, 1000000*1024, SEEK_END); >> >> Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). > > It would maybe be called a MKiB. :-) In SI units it is called a gigabyte. The value 2^30 is called a gibibyte. Everyone knows what he talking about so playing semantic games is silly. Can we move on to real questions? :) -- Eitan Adler
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