How many Gigs do I have

[Shar Hunter]

I know that I have
8,192,000 Kbytes.
3,796,742 blocks
8192 bytes in a block.

How the heck do I figure out how many megs or gigs I have.

I am thinking it is as easy as
819 megs
8 gigs.

Thanks!

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Devide by 1024 to get the next high metric

For ex.,

KB to MB

8192000/1024 = 8000 MB

MB to GB

8000/1024 ~ 7.8 GB

-Sri

[Steven E. Protter]

8190000/1024 = megabyutes

/1024 = Gigabytes

blocks times bytes = bytes total

/1024 = KB
/1024 = MB
/1024 = GB

Not so easy.

Not very hard though.

Take a look at the source code of the script I'm attaching for reference.

SEP

[Robert Kerr]

At 8,192,000K 8gigs would be a "ballpark" to just eye it by thousands, but it would actually be just shy of 8 because your incrementally dividing by 1024:
(8,192,000/1024=8000 megs, then 800/1024 to get 7.8125 gigs)

[Bill Hassell]

This is an intersting topic as newbies to the world of computer numbering. Advertisers noted that 1000 is less than 1024 and the terms kilo, mega and giga refer to orders of magnitude which might be 10^3 (1000) or 1024. Well, when it comes to marketing, bigger is always better and you'll often find 1meg might be 1,000,000 or it might be 1,048,576. So when you talk about a 100meg disk, the actual byte capacity might be 50,000,000 but that translates about 47.7 megs when a meg is 1,048,576.

I've attached a script that I call lls (long listing sorted by size) which uses K,M,G units to represent the file size and at the top of the script, you can choose 1000 or 1024 as the unit of magnitude.