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From:
Job Snijders <job@bsd.nl>
Subject:
Re: make 'df -hi' more human readable
To:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 7 Jan 2026 12:08:49 +0000

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On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 11:51:42AM +0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> Whilst I like the general idea, the use of 1000 as a divisor instead
> of 1024 seems very wrong.

I also tried using a 1024 divisor, but the results just drifted too far
away from reality for my liking. For example, a power-of-2-based 'mega'
is ~ 5% larger than a power-of-10-based 'mega'. To me it seems a 1024
divisor might mislead the operator about inode availability.