Re: Blocks verses Bytes,Mbytes etc

[Harry Putnam <hgp sbcglobal net>]

Jacques Rodary <jrodary free fr> writes:

> bytes in a KiB -kibibyte- , 1024 KiB in a MiB -mebibyte- see
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/),so your disk is 20 GB. Your first
> partition is roughly 512 or 513 cylinders (go to expert mode in fdisk
> to know) which means 4120641 kB (4120641*1000 bytes): a block is 1000
> bytes! Ouf I don't know the word for french "ouf" -:))!

Quite a rundown... thanks