GNU bug report logs - #8320
df -BT: rounding error?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 8320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
Cc: 8320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8320: df -BT: rounding error?
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:47:42 -0700

On 03/22/2011 08:47 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> shouldn't it return
> 0[TPE] for the "Used" column, as rounding a value of 17% should lead to
> zero (mathematically)?

df always rounds up, rather than to nearest.
I vaguely recall that POSIX specifies that, for -k.

> BTW: why are `Z' and `Y' "too large"?

They don't fit in 64 bits.
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