From kde-core-devel  Fri Oct 04 13:05:42 2002
From: Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () t-online ! de>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 13:05:42 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE
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On Friday 20 September 2002 22:00, Thomas Zander wrote:

> > That would be a nice thing, but it could also get very confusing. For
> > instance, imagine the confusion the use of MB and MiB side by side would
> > create. And Konqueror reporting one number while ls reports another...
>
> du allready reports something different from ls. Do you hear people
> complaining about that?

That's because du is the tool to report the disk usage (hence the name) and=
=20
not the file sizes.