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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>
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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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