Rolf Leggewie seems to be in the same camp as Theodore Ts'o, author of
the infamous resize2fs man pages. Where Theodore also finds the
IEC/IEEE terminology "ridiculous", he at least spells out what units
resize2fs does use. Not so with system-config-lvm and its command-line
counterparts (lvreduce
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: system-config-lvm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Thank you for the reply. I'm all for consistency and correct use of
terms. In this case though, while technically correct, I find Gibibytes
a bit ridiculous. I'm quite technical but I had to google for the exact
meaning. For usability reasons, I'd cast my vote not to use that term.
I agree that
It should conform to Ubuntu's policy, which specifies the meanings of
both the longhand and the shorthand.
Wherever "gigabyte" or "GB" is displayed, that should mean 10
bytes, wherever "GiB" or "gibibyte" is displayed, that should mean
1073741824 bytes.
** Changed in: system-config-lvm (U
Thank you for your report. Are you concerned only with the shorthands
or are you suggesting that when spelt out Gibibyte be used instead of
Gigabyte?
** Changed in: system-config-lvm (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: system-config-lvm (Ubuntu)
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