running out of space dd'ing JFFS2 image to /dev/mtdblock/0

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:25 +0000, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 31 January 2005 17:11:38 +0000, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > 
> > > > i agree completely, but i thought some of the recognized suffixes were
> > > > "KiB", "MiB" and so on.  anyway, i was pretty sure that even a
> > > > suggestion this innocuous was going to generate some discussion.
> > > Nobody told about not to use KiB/MiB. It wos told about not to us K and M, 
> > > like 10K, 100M. Use 10KiB, 100MiB instead.
> > 
> > What information does the "B" in "10KiB" contain?  And why is it "Ki"
> > instead of the correct "ki"?
> Hehe.
> 
> This is just widely used unit. And it is usually written like that. And 
> now most utilities work with such. But if one wants and thinks it is 
> reasonable, why not to use kib :-)

Because they aren't just commonly used units.  See:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

josh