From: "Theo de Raadt" Subject: Re: make 'df -hi' more human readable To: Job Snijders Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:20:50 -0700 Job Snijders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 08:00:17AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > It is obviously better if it rounds DOWN, than if it rounds UP. > > > > If it rounds down, your eyeball measure will be short at runtime. > > > > I don't think it matters at all. If you care deeply, you would not > > throw away the precision. Don't use the -h option. > > You are saying that it is better to display the decimal number > 803,356,617 as 766M, rather then as 803M? and 8,630,581 as 8.2M, instead > of 8.6M? This really surprises me. I think the total number of people in the universe who will care about this is 1. More people will care that -h now influences the printing of -i, and if someone had a script interpreting the column it has changed. Meaning 1000 or 1024, noone will actually care.