docs/177457: diskinfo(8): diskinfo -v shows inacurate drive size

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

The following reply was made to PR docs/177457; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
To: Jason Unovitch <jason.unovitch at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/177457: diskinfo(8): diskinfo -v shows inacurate drive size
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:05:07 -0700

 In message <51C876FF.4030302 at gmail.com>, you wrote:
 
 >Isn't this the classic case of the OS using a base of 1024 to calculate
 >size and the hard drive manufacturer using 1000 for the same purpose?
 
 I do not believe so, no.
 
 It has been awhile since I filed this PR, but I believe that the
 non-matching numbers I was looking at were sector counts... NOT
 byte counts.
 
 The number of sectors on a drive is the number of sectors on that drive.
 It should not be different between different tools one might use to
 look at that number.