Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:

>  IMHO disks should stay with the binary units, but indeed should
>  be labeled MiB or GiB. It's the HDD manufactures that are in the
>  wrong here. Their product is sold by decimal bytes yet the real
>  unit is sectors. The binary units are much better suited to
>  measuring sectors.

I don't know any software except lynx, even not on NetBSD, that uses
these "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", etc. units.

In fact, the only times I've seen these units mentioned are a
few years ago in an OpenBSD list; I think they concluded with not using
these units but I may be wrong.

The second time is now.

Can we prefer convenience over correctness in this case and not
use these units? :)

-e.

-- 
Elad Efrat