[ale] Seagate Hdd Not Lining Up!? -- Diverging from the problem...

[Brian Pitts]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> sections. That tends to throw off the numbers a bit. The total drive
> amount is in 1000 instead of 1024 units so the division gets bad. The
> actual space is a  marketing  scam.
> 

Somewhat related:

Us geeks really need to get with the program and refer to 2^30 bytes as
  a Gibibyte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Suggestions_for_new_prefixes

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-unit-consistency

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All the best,
Brian Pitts