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Bug 634825 - file size format is GiB not GB
file size format is GiB not GB
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 110800
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-14 15:59 UTC by Omer Akram
Modified: 2010-11-14 17:46 UTC
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Description Omer Akram 2010-11-14 15:59:34 UTC 
"""
in the nautilus, in Properties dialoge it says GB for the file size .
but infact it is showing the file size as GiB .

so either change the file size format to GiB or change the appendix to GiB.

GiB (Geby Byte) is a standard that was defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in December 1998.

More Information on this bug :
to test this , you can try to burn a folder that nautilus shows as 4.5 GB [which can fit on a bank 4.7GB DVD] but you will see it wont fit , because infact the folder size is not is not 4.5 GB . and it is 4.5 GiB . Nautilus measures the filesize GiB (binary Giga byte), but by mistake it shows as GB (Decimal Giga Byte)
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originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/589217
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2010-11-14 17:46:16 UTC 
There really wasn't any reason to open yet another bug for this; this has been discussed already several times --- e.g. bug 110800, bug 303204, bug 427807 and all of the dups of these. The master bug is glib bug 554172.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110800 ***