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Re: [LUG] calculating filesystem sizes (slightly off topic)

 

It's this SI thingy.
It's only 512 MB if 1MB = 1000 KB, 1 KB = 1000 B, etc.
Your digital camera will think (correctly, as the manufacturers cheat
a bit by using the decimal way) that 1MB = 1024 KB, 1 KB = 1024 B,
etc.
It's this difference that you are seeing.

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