[Bug 42065] Re: installer: confusion about partition sizes (1000 vs. 1024 issue)

2020-07-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Gparted and fdisk in Ubuntu should never show this as "247MB" and if they do, that is a bug. They may show as 247M or as 247MiB. Anywhere you enter MB in Ubuntu is to be treated as decimal megabytes, not binary mibibytes". When units are abbreviated to k, M, G for input we should be consistent a

[Bug 42065] Re: installer: confusion about partition sizes (1000 vs. 1024 issue)

2020-07-05 Thread Nehal Mistry
I just encountered this with version 20.04. I created an ESP partition for 259 MB in the installer, but shows as 247 MB in other partition tools (gparted, fdisk, Windows 10). I didn't notice this until a few days after installing Ubuntu. This is the main problem: it's not clear that it deviates fro

[Bug 42065] Re: installer: confusion about partition sizes (1000 vs. 1024 issue)

2014-04-12 Thread Sunding Wei
I hate partman by doing this way. MB should always be 1024KB in computer world, not marketing world. I have this issue with latest Ubuntu 14.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42

[Bug 42065] Re: installer: confusion about partition sizes (1000 vs. 1024 issue)

2006-06-20 Thread Sascha Silbe
It should at least be noted that there's a difference and what exactly uses which unit. -- installer: confusion about partition sizes (1000 vs. 1024 issue) https://launchpad.net/bugs/42065 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-b