https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471335 Summary: use of kibibytes, mebibytes, gibibytes ... (KiB, MiB, GiB, ...) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: unspecified Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: trans@michael-skiba.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5 I'm sure many of us has already came across those units, and wondered what they mean, I'll just give a short explanation, more details can be found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix: kilo stands (according to the SI) 1000, so a kilobyte should be 1000 bytes, but in reality it mostly means 1024 Bytes. Harddrive vendors use this confusion to better market their products (e.g. a harddrive with 500 GB isn't necessarily the same as 500 GiB). With growing harddrive size is more and more an issue ... Therefore in the IEC created those units, which have been adopted by several technical organizations and standard bodies (incl. IEEE, CIPM, NIST, and SAE). The KDE users probably has noticed the use of the IEC-Units in KDE 4 too (don't know what gnome does though). So I was wondering, if it's possible/planned to change YaST to use this units too. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.