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alieblice 12-24-2012 07:57 AM
problem in determine partition size from number of blocks shown in fdisk command
 
Hi
i have problem in converting blocks to understandable size like mg or gigabyte.
i calculate my partition size by this formula :
Code:
(NumBlocks*1000)/1000000 will yield Megabytes
but i get nearly half of the size ? my swap partition is 2097 megabyte .
Code:
$ echo '(1024000*1000)/(1000000)' | bc
1024

secretservgy 12-24-2012 08:02 AM
Are you using these conversion factors?

Code:
2048 blocks = 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB

2,097,152 blocks = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB

alieblice 12-24-2012 08:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by secretservgy (Post 4856061)
Are you using these conversion factors?

Code:
2048 blocks = 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB

2,097,152 blocks = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB
i don't know i found out that on google.
i think i confused.
i have partition with 1024000 blocks . how should i change it to megabyte ?

secretservgy 12-24-2012 08:23 AM
Well according to that conversion, blocks/2048=MB and blocks/2097152=GB

But that only gives you 500MB...?

Also, block size isn't always universal, it can be defined OraFAQ Forum

DB_BLOCK_SIZE

secretservgy 12-24-2012 08:29 AM
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rknichols 12-24-2012 10:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by secretservgy (Post 4856061)
Are you using these conversion factors?

Code:
2048 blocks = 1,048,576 bytes = 1MB

2,097,152 blocks = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB
The term "block" can mean different things in different places. In fdisk, a block is 1024 bytes.

(EDIT: It's a carryover from the days when the file system block size was almost always 1024 bytes, which is seldom the case with today's huge disk drives.)

alieblice 12-24-2012 11:46 AM
thanks every body . problem solved .
I was thinking that block size have same size in every place .
so if i want to calculate my ubuntu partitions size in megabyte which have 41992192 blocks i can use this formula only in a case that your blocks have size of 1024 byte
(Number-Of-Blocks * 1024)/1000000 = 43000 megabyte
1 megabyte is 1000000 byte .
simply do this in terminal :

Code:
$ echo "(41992192*1024)/1000000"|bc
43000


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