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[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> The image size is 1022 M. 

This is likely too big, remember drive manufacturers don't really use
units like KiB MiB or GiB - they use 1K = 1000, 1M = 1,000,000 and 1G =
1,000,000,000 - e.g. the SI units.

It seems to me that most 1GB USB keys have a size of 1GB = 1,000M =
1,000,000,000 bytes. Some are 1024MB (1024,000,000,000 bytes), some may
be a bit smaller (e.g. "value-adds" like the Sandisk U3 "CD-ROM") while
some may actually be 1024 MiB (1,099,511,627,776 bytes). It varies.

It would probably be helpful to do a quick study of actual sizes of 1GB
USB sticks - we may end up wanting to do a 990 MB (990,000,000,000
bytes) image or something so the image works on as many USB sticks as
possible.

    David