Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:49:28 +0100 |
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In article <200112201721.KAA05522@tstac.esa.lanl.gov> you wrote: > Eric has decided to follow the following standard: > IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, > Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - > Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics. > and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to KiB, > Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc.
I did this for nettools (i.e. ifconfig), too:
RX bytes:2120660294 (1.9 GiB) TX bytes:341183013 (325.3 MiB)
man page:
Since net-tools 1.60-4 ifconfig is printing byte counters with SI units. So 1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers are truncated to one decimal (which can by quite a large error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 bytes :) ... SEE ALSO route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8) http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html - Prefixes for binary multiples
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