Subject: Re: bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:23:36 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 15:50:36 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> > You mean, we cannot even say in what units those numbers are measured?
> 
> That's right. It may be blocks, sectors, KiB, or baker's dozens. There may be ways to influence the unit (switches, environment variables) but not portably, and there is no way of telling what effects such efforts take, if any.

Doesn't the result come from get-free-disk-space, which calls
file-system-info, which reports in known units?  Or am I confused?