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Subject: Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes?
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hi there,

i hacked up humanized_number(3) a bit in order to produce the following df(1)
output:

otaku% df -hi; df -Hi
Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p3      217Gi   430Mi   200Gi     0%    6.2k   29M    0%   /
devfs            1.0Ki   1.0Ki      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /dev
/dev/ufs/varfs     2Gi   286Mi   1.5Gi    16%     27k  254k   10%   /var
/dev/ufs/usrfs   890Gi   758Gi    60Gi    93%    1.0M  119M    1%   /usr
linprocfs        4.0Ki   4.0Ki      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/proc
linsysfs         4.0Ki   4.0Ki      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/sys
devfs            1.0Ki   1.0Ki      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/dev
linprocfs        4.0Ki   4.0Ki      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/proc
linsysfs         4.0Ki   4.0Ki      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/sys
devfs            1.0Ki   1.0Ki      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/dev
tmpfs            2.0Gi   1.3Mi     2Gi     0%      21  524k    0%   /tmp
/dev/cd0         4.2Gi   4.2Gi      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /media/dvd
Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p3       233G    451M    214G     0%    6.2k   29M    0%   /
devfs             1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /dev
/dev/ufs/varfs    2.1G    300M    1.6G    16%     27k  254k   10%   /var
/dev/ufs/usrfs    956G    814G     65G    93%    1.0M  119M    1%   /usr
linprocfs         4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/proc
linsysfs          4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/sys
devfs             1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /usr/compat/linux/dev
linprocfs         4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/proc
linsysfs          4.1k    4.1k      0B   100%       1     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/sys
devfs             1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /usr/local/gentoo-stage3/dev
tmpfs             2.1G    1.3M    2.1G     0%      21  524k    0%   /tmp
/dev/cd0          4.5G    4.5G      0B   100%       0     0  100%   /media/dvd

any thoughts whether this is something freebsd might benefit from or has it
been decided that the current notion of prefixes mustn't be changed.

cheers.
alex

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a13x