GNU bug report logs - #18119
df --si misleading output units

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Kernc <kerncece <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 20:24:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 47023

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 18119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Filipus Klutiero <chealer <at> gmail.com>
To: 18119 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 18119-subscribe <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Confirmed
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 14:13:12 -0400

I confirm. info says:

> With human-readable formats, output sizes are followed by a size
> letter such as ‘M’ for megabytes.  ‘BLOCK_SIZE=human-readable’ uses
> powers of 1024; ‘M’ stands for 1,048,576 bytes.  ‘BLOCK_SIZE=si’ is
> similar, but uses powers of 1000 and appends ‘B’; ‘MB’ stands for
> 1,000,000 bytes.

There is at least a documentation bug, but in my book a bug in the output. "82G" is not a size.

-- 
Filipus Klutiero
http://www.philippecloutier.com
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