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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:48:55 +0800
From:      Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 14.3-RELEASE gpart show output (?.?T) vs. 14.4 and 15.0 and main: why do 14.4 and 15.0 and main have some single significant digit (?T) size figures?
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> On Apr 20, 2026, at 2:03 AM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/19/26 10:40, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 20, 2026, at 1:11 AM, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org
>>> <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 19, 2026, at 11:03 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com
>>>> <mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 14.3-RELEASE (more useful):
>>>> 
>>>> =>        40  1875384928    da1  GPT  (894G)
>>>> =>        40  2930277095    nda1  GPT  (1.4T)
>>>> =>        34  2930277101    da0  GPT  (1.4T)
>>>> =>        34  3907029101    nda0  GPT  (1.8T)
>>>> =>        34  4000797293    nda3  GPT  (1.9T)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 14.4-RELEASE and 15.0-RELEASE and main (less useful):
>>>> 
>>>> =>        40  1875384928    da1  GPT  (894G)
>>>> =>        40  2930277095    nda1  GPT  (1T)
>>>> =>        34  2930277101    da0  GPT  (1T)
>>>> =>        34  3907029101    nda0  GPT  (2T)
>>>> =>        34  4000797293    nda3  GPT  (2T)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> It appears to be caused by 4f809ffec69c (gpart: add libxo support for
>>> "show" subcommand + man page updates) .
>>> 
>>> Prior to the change the size was formatted to human friendly format by
>>> `fmtsize(pp->lg_mediasize))` which in turn calls 
>>> ```
>>> humanize_number(buf, sizeof(buf), rawsz, "", HN_AUTOSCALE,
>>>            HN_B | HN_NOSPACE | HN_DECIMAL);
>>> ```,
>>> 
>>> now it is formatted with 
>>> ```
>>> xo_emit("  ({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp->lg_mediasize);
>>> ```
>>> 
>>> It appears that libxo does not handle well with numbers those exceed
>>> 10^12, ( 1 Terabyte in this case ).
>> 
>> Try this patch please, not a full fix for all the "size" column,
>> 
>> ```
>> Author: Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org>>
>> Date:   Mon Apr 20 01:38:21 2026 +0800
>> 
>>     geom_part: Fix the format of size
>> 
>> diff --git a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>> index 852eec2d790a..ca3c5f2c27c3 100644
>> --- a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>> +++ b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>> @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ gpart_show_geom(struct ggeom *gp, const char
>> *element, int show_providers)
>>                 }
>>                 if (idx)
>>                         xo_emit("]");
>> -               xo_emit("  ({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp->lg_mediasize);
>> +               xo_emit("  ({h,hn-decimal:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp-
>>> lg_mediasize);
>>                 xo_close_instance(s);
>>                 first = end + 1;
>>         }
>> ```
>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> ===
>>>> Mark Millard
>>>> marklmi at yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/>;
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Zhenlei
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Zhenlei
>> 
> 
> I'm in the middle of other building-port-packages timing tests on the
> systems. So I'll wait on doing the above.

See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514>; for the full patch.

> 
> 
> -- 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com

Best regards,
Zhenlei


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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 20, 2026, at 2:03 AM, Mark Millard &lt;<a href="mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com" class="">marklmi@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 4/19/26 10:40, Zhenlei Huang wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 20, 2026, at 1:11 AM, Zhenlei Huang &lt;<a href="mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org" class="">zlei@FreeBSD.org</a><br class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org" class="">mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;&gt; wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Apr 19, 2026, at 11:03 PM, Mark Millard &lt;<a href="mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com" class="">marklmi@yahoo.com</a><br class="">&lt;<a href="mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com" class="">mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com</a>&gt;&gt; wrote:<br class=""><br class="">14.3-RELEASE (more useful):<br class=""><br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40 &nbsp;1875384928 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;da1 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(894G)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40 &nbsp;2930277095 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda1 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1.4T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;2930277101 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;da0 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1.4T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;3907029101 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda0 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1.8T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;4000797293 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda3 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1.9T)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">14.4-RELEASE and 15.0-RELEASE and main (less useful):<br class=""><br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40 &nbsp;1875384928 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;da1 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(894G)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;40 &nbsp;2930277095 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda1 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;2930277101 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;da0 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(1T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;3907029101 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda0 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(2T)<br class="">=&gt; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;34 &nbsp;4000797293 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nda3 &nbsp;GPT &nbsp;(2T)<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It appears to be caused by 4f809ffec69c (gpart: add libxo support for<br class="">"show" subcommand + man page updates) .<br class=""><br class="">Prior to the change the size was formatted to human friendly format by<br class="">`fmtsize(pp-&gt;lg_mediasize))` which in turn calls&nbsp;<br class="">```<br class="">humanize_number(buf, sizeof(buf), rawsz, "", HN_AUTOSCALE,<br class="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HN_B | HN_NOSPACE | HN_DECIMAL);<br class="">```,<br class=""><br class="">now it is formatted with&nbsp;<br class="">```<br class="">xo_emit(" &nbsp;({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp-&gt;lg_mediasize);<br class="">```<br class=""><br class="">It appears that libxo does not handle well with numbers those exceed<br class="">10^12, ( 1 Terabyte in this case ).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Try this patch please, not a full fix for all the "size" column,<br class=""><br class="">```<br class="">Author: Zhenlei Huang &lt;<a href="mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org" class="">zlei@FreeBSD.org</a> &lt;<a href="mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org" class="">mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;&gt;<br class="">Date: &nbsp; Mon Apr 20 01:38:21 2026 +0800<br class=""><br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; geom_part: Fix the format of size<br class=""><br class="">diff --git a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c<br class="">index 852eec2d790a..ca3c5f2c27c3 100644<br class="">--- a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c<br class="">+++ b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c<br class="">@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ gpart_show_geom(struct ggeom *gp, const char<br class="">*element, int show_providers)<br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; if (idx)<br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; xo_emit("]");<br class="">- &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; xo_emit(" &nbsp;({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp-&gt;lg_mediasize);<br class="">+ &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; xo_emit(" &nbsp;({h,hn-decimal:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp-<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">lg_mediasize);<br class=""></blockquote>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; xo_close_instance(s);<br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; first = end + 1;<br class="">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }<br class="">```<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">--&nbsp;<br class="">===<br class="">Mark Millard<br class="">marklmi at&nbsp;<a href="http://yahoo.com" class="">yahoo.com</a> &lt;<a href="http://yahoo.com/" class="">http://yahoo.com/</a>&gt;<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Zhenlei<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Zhenlei<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I'm in the middle of other building-port-packages timing tests on the<br class="">systems. So I'll wait on doing the above.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>See <a href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514" class="">https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514</a>&nbsp;for the full patch.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">===<br class="">Mark Millard<br class="">marklmi at <a href="http://yahoo.com" class="">yahoo.com</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<div>Best regards,</div><div>Zhenlei</div>

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