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Sort out file size suffixes #7

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joel-wright opened this issue Oct 11, 2013 · 1 comment
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Sort out file size suffixes #7

joel-wright opened this issue Oct 11, 2013 · 1 comment

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The K, G ... size suffixes should really be using powers of 1000.

I realise that there is still mixed use, but OS X at least has been using the decimal version to report file sizes since 10.6, although Microsoft do seem to be ploughing on ignoring the standards ;)

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Ok, the full situation is this:

OS X Finder: powers of 10
BSD ls (OS X terminal): powers of 2 (but can be configured to display powers of 10)
GNU coreutils 8.21 (arch linux): powers of 10 (but docs say it should be powers of 2 until configured)
Windows: always powers of 2

@joel-wright joel-wright closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Dec 5, 2024
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