Bug 1392607 - Kickstart documentation confuses kilobyte and kibibyte
Summary: Kickstart documentation confuses kilobyte and kibibyte
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Installation_Guide
Version: 7.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Clayton Spicer
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentati...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-07 21:38 UTC by michael
Modified: 2019-03-06 01:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-10 19:27:50 UTC
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Description michael 2016-11-07 21:38:38 UTC
Description of problem:
On this page (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html#sect-kickstart-packages), there is the following sentence:

"--pesize= - Set the size of the volume group's physical extents in kilobytes (KiB). The default value is 4096 (4 MiB), and the minimum value is 1024 (1 MiB)"

But kilobytes (1000 bytes) are represented by kB, not KiB (kibibyte, 1024 bytes). More information can be found on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte)

The documentation is inconsistent about what units are being used.
I would have expected it to either say:

"extents in kilobytes (kB)"

or

"extents in kibibytes (KiB)"

depending on what is actually used.


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