From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zdenek Kabelac Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:25:06 +0000 (GMT) Subject: stable-2.02 - man: more precise UNIT Message-ID: <20201020212506.7D699385DC37@sourceware.org> List-Id: To: lvm-devel@redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gitweb: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=commitdiff;h=50621533ddb143a41d2dd5f1bd85f8d45c6581fe Commit: 50621533ddb143a41d2dd5f1bd85f8d45c6581fe Parent: 8af590b1bbb5796d20c32d41b6e4dcb7d2441fb9 Author: Zdenek Kabelac AuthorDate: Mon Oct 19 12:32:46 2020 +0200 Committer: Zdenek Kabelac CommitterDate: Tue Oct 20 22:41:34 2020 +0200 man: more precise UNIT Since 'kilobytes' could be seen in 2 way - SI as '1000', while all programmers sees it as '1024' - switch to commonly acceptted KiB, MiB.... Resolves RHBZ 1496255. --- tools/command.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/command.c b/tools/command.c index acb79c9c1..fcb833fa2 100644 --- a/tools/command.c +++ b/tools/command.c @@ -3233,9 +3233,8 @@ static void _print_man_all_positions_desc(struct command_name *cname) "capitalization, e.g. 'k' and 'K' both refer to 1024.\n" "The default input unit is specified by letter, followed by |UNIT.\n" "UNIT represents other possible input units: \\fBbBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE\\fP.\n" - "b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is kilobytes,\n" - "m|M is megabytes, g|G is gigabytes, t|T is terabytes,\n" - "p|P is petabytes, e|E is exabytes.\n" + "b|B is bytes, s|S is sectors of 512 bytes, k|K is KiB,\n" + "m|M is MiB, g|G is GiB, t|T is TiB, p|P is PiB, e|E is EiB.\n" "(This should not be confused with the output control --units, where\n" "capital letters mean multiple of 1000.)\n");