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Bug 458869 - Give correct notation of hard disk space - SI units
Give correct notation of hard disk space - SI units
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427807
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.19.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-07-21 03:24 UTC by shirish agarwal
Modified: 2008-05-07 18:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description shirish agarwal 2007-07-21 03:24:46 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Atm nautilus gives size in GB, MB etc. which is just plain wrong.


Steps to reproduce:
1. See any file
2. It shows up as KB,MB etc.
3. Also incorrect remaining 


Actual results:
 Confusing when trying to put it together on a external hard disk, CD, DVD & get messages like do not fit on the media


Expected results:
To give me correct information regarding available space, space occupied et.c 

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Some notable links from wikipedia on the subject matter :-

 There is discussion on the same issue at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301838

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Approximate_ratios_between_binary_and_decimal_prefixes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Legal_disputes

as well as http://www.osta.org/technology/pdf/dvdqa.pdf#page=20
Comment 1 A. Walton 2008-05-07 18:08:41 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 427807 ***