Subject: Re: bug#50940: how df utility displays sizes - GB vs GiB

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 09:33:13 -0700

On 10/1/21 6:28 AM, Danie de Jager wrote:
> Systems like Amazon EC2 use the explicit GiB suffix.

Are you saying that Amazon EC2's 'df' utility behaves differently from 
coreutils' 'df'? If so, could you send us documentation or source code 
indicating exactly what Amazon EC2's 'df' does?

As Pádraig wrote, there are compatibility arguments for 'df' to not 
change its behavior here.

As Glenn wrote, there was a longstanding issue with coreutils 
documentation disagreeing with behavior. In 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2020-09/msg00002.html> 
Kamil Dudka suggested that the documentation be fixed; I don't know 
whether that happened.