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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#34386: closed (Re: bug#34386:)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:01:03 +0000

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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.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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.

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)

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From: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units
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.

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