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df -m undocumented, why no df -g

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Message #8 received at 11858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Jaeger <aj <at> suse.com>
Cc: 11858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11858: df -m undocumented, why no df -g
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:38:32 -0700

On 07/04/2012 01:11 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> df -k and df -m both work but only df -k is mentioned as part of df --
> help. So, the omission to document -m is IMO a bug.

I think the general idea is that -k was a mistake, but
it's standardized, and that we don't want to have
options -m, -g, -t, -p, -e, -z, -y for the other sizes
(among other things -t is already taken).  -m is there
only for BSD compatibility but we don't want to publicize
it and we may want to take it back at some point.

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