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           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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: trans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
          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:
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