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Re: dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB
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Olivier Delhomme |
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Re: dd (coreutils) 5.97 used power of 10 not 2 for calculating MB |
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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:50:25 +0100 |
Le Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:09:27 -0700, Eric Blake disait :
> Thanks for the report. According to 'dd --help', "MB 1000*1000, M
> 1024*1024", so the result matches documentation. However, some of the
> coreutils (such as ls) support --human-readable vs. --si to choose between
> power of 10^3 and power of 2^10, maybe it would be worth adding such an
> option to dd.
There was an old patch that I proposed a long time ago about that
against coreutils 5.0.91. Jim corrected it according to gnu standards
and I think it was then Ok (it is still pending - see the TODO file at
chapter "Changes expected to go in, someday.").
@sOOn,
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Olivier Delhomme : http://blog.delhomme.org/ [fr]
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