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Lots of partitions? what for?

Posted Jul 18, 2008 7:56 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
In reply to: Lots of partitions? what for? by ljt
Parent article: Block layer: integrity checking and lots of partitions

Just to ensure I parsed it right:

Go = Gigaoctet = French abbreviation = GB (Gigabyte) ?

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Go explained

Posted Jul 18, 2008 20:57 UTC (Fri) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

My recently-purchased SATA disk says "1 TB/To" and "32 MB Cache/Mo Cachette" on the retail box, so my assumption is yes, this is French. Plus, the line Guarantie limitée de 5 ans would seem to confirm this.

I don't know French, but I can recognize it in written/printed text. Yes, this is a late-model Seagate consumer drive. :-)

Go explained

Posted Jul 18, 2008 21:14 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's French: 'octet'. (You often see this in older standards documents, 
too, which have to be clear about the number of bits in a byte.)