From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 21:53: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 437A414D67 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA31097; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001130552.VAA31097@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174AA@mail.edifecs.com> from Michael VanLoon at "Jan 12, 2000 03:20:39 pm" To: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:52:50 -0800 (PST) Cc: drosih@rpi.edu ('Garance A Drosihn'), wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I'm sorry but I would find it non-obvious and more confusing. When ls or a > similar disk/memory utility tells me xxxK or xxxM, I would expect it to be > in 2^10 or 2^20 units. To appear otherwise would surprise me. I guess you get suprised a lot then. The only folks that I know of who regulary use K and M as base 10 when talking about disk and memory are the disk drive manufactures. Does you machine have 128MB or 134MB. You must have missed this earlier in the thread.... All of the boot time reporting is in 2^20 MB: ad0: 3079MB (6306048 sectors), 6256 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S Due the math if you doubt me, oh, and Quantum calls this a 3.2G disk drive :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message