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

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 14:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: 34386-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34386:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:00:11 -0800

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.

-- 
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)
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