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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#18119: df --si misleading output units |
| Date: | Mon, 04 Aug 2014 07:07:43 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 |
Kernc wrote:
Since `--block-size=GB` outputs the value in GB, and 'GB' is the unit appended, why doesn't `--si` do the same (use SI-units to mark "SI-magnitude" values)?
Because it's more concise that way, and because it's been that way for years. No doubt it could have been done differently, but at this point ...
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