retitle 898774 free man page uses incorrect units for -h option severity 898774 thankyou
On Wed, 16 May 2018 at 05:42 Dongliang Mu <[email protected]> wrote: > $ free -h > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 15Gi 7.0Gi 341Mi 905Mi 8.0Gi > 8.0Gi > Swap: 15Gi 50Mi 15Gi > > It seems the developer added one char "i" by mistake, or there is some > magic I > don't know. > These are gibibytes and mebibytes which are described in the manual page. However there is a minor error in the man page where it does say gibibytes, for example, but uses G and not Gi. If you really want it in Giga, Mega, use --si in the command line. - Craig -- Craig Small https://dropbear.xyz/ csmall at : dropbear.xyz Debian GNU/Linux https://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org Mastodon: @[email protected] Twitter: @smallsees GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5
