'Twas brillig, and Christian Lohmaier at 26/06/12 15:26 did gyre and gimble: > Obviously I am. That's why I started the thread in the first place. > And that is why I wrote *numeric* values explicitly. It shows > "different numbers", the user doesn't pay so much attention to the > units themselves, only "k vs M vs G" - what matters is that a file > that has 240MB on Windows now is 252MB in nautilus. > Or that file he copied over the network from linux to his windows > computer now suddenly is 14 MB smaller.
What about if they transfer a file from OSX to Linux? OSX uses base 10: e.g. my file created by: dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.txt bs=1m count=10 ls -l shows the size as: 10485760 ls -lh shows the size as: 10M i.e. base 2. And in the Finder GUI it's shown as 10.5MB (i.e. base 10) So what $OTHER_OS does is liable to be an avenue that will lead to contradictions anyway. Personally I don't give a flying fig what's shown :) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
