Bug#684128: false advertising

[<ian_bruce@fastmail.net>]

> Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'important'

So if the partitioner invites people to specify their swap space, or any
other volume, in units of "gigabytes", which JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY
understands to mean 2^30 in that context, and instead it uses the hard
disk manufacturers' phony units which are seven percent smaller, WITHOUT
EVEN TELLING YOU THIS, and you only find out when the installation is
complete, and nothing can be done about it except starting all over
again, then this isn't a real bug, but just "wishlist"?

Thanks for clearing that up.



quote from ls(1) man page:

    --block-size=SIZE

        scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g., `--block-size=M'
        prints sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes. See SIZE format below.


quote from df(1) man page:

    -B, --block-size=SIZE

        scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g., `-BM' prints
        sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes. See SIZE format below.


quote from du(1) man page:

    -B, --block-size=SIZE

        scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g., `-BM' prints
        sizes in units of 1,048,576 bytes. See SIZE format below.


[for all of the above, K=1024, M=1024^2, G=1024^3, T=1024^4]


quote from lvcreate(8) man page:

    -L, --size LogicalVolumeSize[bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE]

        Gives the size to allocate for the new logical volume. A size
        suffix of K for kilobytes, M for megabytes, G for gigabytes, T
        for terabytes, P for petabytes or E for exabytes is optional. 
        Default unit is megabytes.


[here it is considered so obvious that binary units are intended that
they don't even bother to mention it]