Re: df: Wrong Gigabyte-Output

[Paul Eggert]

"Matzwelt.info" <address@hidden> writes:

> ich saw this Problem after Dist-Upgrade (aptitude) from Debian 3.0 (woody)
> to Debian 3.1 (sarge). 3304 MB must be output 3,2(265625) GB on df -h.

I don't see a bug here.  As I understand it, you had 3,463,516,160
bytes on your partition, which is about 3303.07 MiB (one MiB == 2**20
bytes).  df always rounds up (POSIX requires this) so it rounds up the
total to 3304 MiB-blocks.  That same total is also equal to about 3.23
GiB (one GiB == 2**30 bytes), so df -h's "3,3G" is also correctly
rounded up.  Also, df -H's "3,5G" is also correctly rounded up, since
the actual value is about 3.46 GB.

Does this explain what you observed?  If not, please clarify.  Thanks.