Can we have an answer to RD's question as to how to get the capacity info easily? I use df to find filesystem size, but my guess is that there is some function/command that will give the actual number of blocks. JN On 01/19/2012 03:10 PM, Singer X.J. Wang wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux