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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Christian Lohmaier at 26/06/12 15:26 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> Obviously I am. That's why I started the thread in the first place.
</I>&gt;<i> And that is why I wrote *numeric* values explicitly. It shows
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;different numbers&quot;, the user doesn't pay so much attention to the
</I>&gt;<i> units themselves, only &quot;k vs M vs G&quot; - what matters is that a file
</I>&gt;<i> that has 240MB on Windows now is 252MB in nautilus.
</I>&gt;<i> Or that file he copied over the network from linux to his windows
</I>&gt;<i> computer now suddenly is 14 MB smaller.
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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

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