Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:13:04 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to [KMGTPE]i prefixes? Message-ID: <20110325101304.GA56260@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110325041905.00006711@unknown> References: <20110325002115.GA323@freebsd.org> <20110325041905.00006711@unknown>
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On Fri Mar 25 11, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:21:15 +0000 > Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > i hacked up humanized_number(3) a bit in order to produce the > > following df(1) output: > > [...] > > 4.2Gi 4.2Gi 0B 100% 0 0 100% /media/dvd > > I don't know if it's correct, but Snow Leopard uses "Bi" for bytes. hmmm...i'm wondering why they do that. there's no reason for that, because 1 bytes is 8 bit no matter if you use a power of one or a power of ten. cheers. alex > > -- > Bruce Cran -- a13x
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