Exactly.. :) as it should have.. S On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 15:09, Woogie <woogie [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > I thought the fallout of the infamous lawsuits against the HDD > manufacturers was that "8Gb" and "1Tb" as labels on storage media were > understood to mean 8x10^9 and 1x10^12, respectively, by the courts. > Which is why the "proper" SI notation for file sizes as MiB and GiB is > showing up more often these days. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> > wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: > > > >> That's a deviation of less then 0.5%.. that's not that bad in most > industries.. > >> > >> S > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 14:48, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> > wrote: > >> > >> over the last day on the beagleboard list, there was an animated > >> discussion that touched on the fact that some "dd" copies to SD > cards > >> was failing since the actual capacity of the SD card was > noticeably > >> less than advertised. as in, trying to write a 4G image to an > >> allegedly 4G SD card failed, "no space left on device". > >> > >> is there a utility in linux that will tell me that *real* > capacity > >> of an SD card if i pop it into the SD slot? if i write an image > to an > >> allegedly 8G micro SD card and pop it into my beagleboard, and > stop in > >> u-boot, what i can do is: > >> > >> # mmcinfo > >> Device: OMAP SD/MMC > >> Manufacturer ID: 27 > >> OEM: 5048 > >> Name: SD08G > >> Tran Speed: 25000000 > >> Rd Block Len: 512 > >> SD version 2.0 > >> High Capacity: Yes > >> Capacity: 7969177600 <--- AHA! > >> Bus Width: 4-bit > >> # > >> > >> that's *clearly* less than a true 8G. is there a way to see > that in > >> linux? thanks. > > > > huh? 8G is officially 8589934592. the value above is a full 8% > > smaller. > > > > rday > > > > -- > > > > ======================================================================== > > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > > > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > > ======================================================================== > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > > > > -- > Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb > -- Pythian proud winner of Oracle North America Titan Award for Exadata Solution...watch the video on pythian.com