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Re: Snow Arithmetic


  • Subject: Re: Snow Arithmetic
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:59:11 -0400

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Paul Scott<email@hidden> wrote:
> I think it might be more involved than just GB vs GiB. If not, I'd like
> someone to explain to me how it is that:
> 1) Text Edit appears as "16.3MB on disk (12,734,083 bytes)". How do you
> reconcile those numbers in GB vs GiB? I can't.

I suspect that's just whole blocks vs actual bytes.  Even a 1-byte
file can't take up less than a whole block of disk space, which will
show up as something like "4KB on disk (1 byte)".

> 2) du shows 2.5MiB (that's two point five) in human readable terms.

Only 2.5?  You sure you didn't drop a digit somehow?   I'm still on
Leopard, but TextEdit.app is 22M here according to du (while Finder
reports 15,050,855 bytes).

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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