Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream
According to upstream ticket #18119, the output of df --si is misleading, since the numbers it outputs are different from --human-readable, even though the "units" are the same:
$ df --human-readable /dev/sdb2 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 82G 66G 12G 86% /home $ df --si /dev/sdb2 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 88G 71G 13G 86% /home
Bob Proulx made a point that "G" does not mean GiB nor GB, from which he concludes that the output is simply ambiguous. I will go further and state that the output is invalid, since "G", "M" and others are merely unit prefixes, not actual units. Although this would use more space, I fail to see a better solution than to add 1 or 2 characters to each cell which contains a size. Note that the unit *should* normally be separated from the number with a space. -- Filipus Klutiero http://www.philippecloutier.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
