Subject: bug#34386: closed (Re: bug#34386:)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:01:03 +0000

Your bug report

#34386: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units

which was filed against the parted package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#34386:
From: "Brian C. Lane" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:00:11 -0800
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:47:04AM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> That feature would show all output fields auto-scaled to shortest three
> digits unit and and would display the units of print out.  Following units
> would be used:
> *B* = bytes, *KiB* = kibibyte, *MiB* = mebibyte, *GiB* = gibibyte, ...

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think that's something we're going
to change.

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Subject: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units
From: Ricky Tigg <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:33:39 +0100
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Hi. Suggestion :ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024)
option covering all units. Current implementation of such units applies to
one unit at a time. Not a versatile use mode. As model:
(parted) unit iB

Regards.