[Parted-maintainers] Bug#307220: Base(10) v Base(2) Space Reporting

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:49:20PM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.6.21-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> When using parted via Debian Installer RC3, I found the available space 
> specified by parted to be inconsistent with then numbers I entered when asked 
> how much space each partition should use.
> 
> It's mildly confusing to specify 2.5GB for a partition and then in the 
> partition list find 2.7GB listed as the spaced used.  Running a `df` against 
> the created partition confirms 2.5GB was the actual size of the partition 
> once it was created.
> 
> The issue seems to be GB is sometimes described as 2^10 and sometimes it's 
> 2^2.

Is this with the real parted (as launched from the shell in console 2), or
using the partman tool ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther