Karel Zak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 03:16:46PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:09:52 +0100 Karel Zak wrote:
>>> It seems like a chaos between KiB, MiB, (2^N) and kB, MB, GB, (10^N).
>>>
>>> Does anyone understand this code? I don't believe it's a bug -- it's
>>> too stupid...
>> It looks to me like someone decided that only K could mean 2^N
>> and any other suffix means 10^M.
>
> Yes. A proposed patch is below.
>
> Karel
>
>
>
>>From 00855c890465670ba76934229dd6881647934e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:06:44 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] fdisk: calculate +size{K,M,G} in 2^N
>
> fdisk(8) does not calculate partition size (+sizeM or +sizeG)
> in MiB or GiB correctly. It uses 10^N instead 2^N.
>
> This patch cleanups +size[kKmMgG] to:
>
> +size -- bytes
> +sizek -- kB (10^3)
> +sizeK -- KiB (2^10)
> +sizem -- MB (10^6)
> +sizeM -- MiB (2^20)
> +sizeg -- GB (10^9)
> +sizeG -- GiB (2^30)
If you were changing the meaning, would it be better
to sync with coreutils? There it is:
<size> is a number which may be optionally followed
by the following multiplicative suffixes:
b 512 ("blocks")
KB 1000 (KiloBytes)
K 1024 (KibiBytes)
MB 1000*1000 (MegaBytes)
M 1024*1024 (MebiBytes)
and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y
Pádraig.
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