Subject: bug#17838: ls: unit displayed for block size when if size is displayed in human-readable format

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:14:29 +0100

On 06/23/2014 12:17 PM, Michal Sekletar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ls utility currently displays suffix representing unit in blocks column if
> --size is combined with --human-readable. For example:
> 
> $ ls -l -sh /tmp/foo
> 4.0K -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6 Jun 23 11:32 foo
> 
> Suffix K in the output shown doesn't seem correct and implies false information.
> Moreover if size of file is bigger say 1M then suffix used for blocks column
> would be M. Looks like if file is small enough and no suffix is shown in size
> column then suffix K is implied for # blocks column.
> 
> $ rpm -q coreutils
> coreutils-8.22-14.fc21.x86_64
> 
> I contacted downstream maintainer first and this behavior shouldn't be caused by
> downstream patch, therefore reporting here.
> 
> Please disregard this report if this is expected or bug is already reported.

Sorry I'm not seeing the ambiguity.
What wrong with displaying 4.0K here for the disk usage, or 4M, or 512 etc?

thanks,
Pádraig.