GNU bug report logs - #34386
parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units

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From: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:33:39 +0100

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Hi. Suggestion :ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024)
option covering all units. Current implementation of such units applies to
one unit at a time. Not a versatile use mode. As model:
(parted) unit iB

Regards.

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34386: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power
 of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:27:36 -0800

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> Hi. Suggestion :ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024)
> option covering all units. Current implementation of such units applies to
> one unit at a time. Not a versatile use mode. As model:
> (parted) unit iB

I don't understand what you mean by it applying to one unit at a time.
Can you give an example of what isn't working as expected?

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)

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From: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>
To: 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:47:04 +0100

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That feature would show all output fields auto-scaled to shortest three
digits unit and and would display the units of print out.  Following units
would be used:
*B* = bytes, *KiB* = kibibyte, *MiB* = mebibyte, *GiB* = gibibyte, ...

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: 34386-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: 34386 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34386:
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:00:11 -0800

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:47:04AM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> That feature would show all output fields auto-scaled to shortest three
> digits unit and and would display the units of print out.  Following units
> would be used:
> *B* = bytes, *KiB* = kibibyte, *MiB* = mebibyte, *GiB* = gibibyte, ...

Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think that's something we're going
to change.

-- 
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)

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