[debbugs-tracker] bug#34386: closed (parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units)

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regarding parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 
1024) option covering all units
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: parted v. 3.2 – Ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:33:39 +0100

Hi. Suggestion :ability to choose IEC binary units (power of 2^10, 1024) option covering all units. Current implementation of such units applies to one unit at a time. Not a versatile use mode. As model:

(parted) unit iB

Regards.

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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:47:04AM +0100, Ricky Tigg wrote:
> > That feature would show all output fields auto-scaled to shortest three
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> > *B* = bytes, *KiB* = kibibyte, *MiB* = mebibyte, *GiB* = gibibyte, ...
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> Thanks for the suggestion but I don't think that's something we're going
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