On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 15:48 +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 19 December 2014 at 15:42, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-12-19 at 12:46 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> the partition size information it gives is different from that
> >> shown by df and by gparted (which are consistent with each other). One
> >> partition shows as 73GB under gnome-disks and as 68GB under df and
> >> gparted.
> >
> > Metric versus imperial?
> >
> 
> Decimal vs. binary (according to wikipedia
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte :)).
> 
> df and gparted use size units to the power of 1024 bytes (G or GiB)
> whereas gnome-disks uses 1000 bytes (GB). Try 'df -BGB'.

Good point, thanks.

poc

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