Description of problem: some old issues may be experimented due to the availability of an old packaged release (January 1, 2018). Documentation lacks accuracy regarding some units specifications. Version-Release number of component: e2fsprogs.x86_64 1.43.8-2.fc28 Actual results: no specification at all regarding units megabytes and gigabytes. Expected results: latest release availability –v. 1.44.3 (July 10, 2018)–, how are they defined – e.g according to power-of-2 –? Additional info – man page – RESIZE2FS(8): 'the size parameter may be suffixed by one of (...) the units designators: 's', 'K', 'M', or 'G', for 512 byte sectors, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.' 'when kilobytes is used (...), I mean (...) power-of-2 kilobytes (...)'.
Hi, the whole paragraph is as follows Note: when kilobytes is used above, I mean real, power-of-2 kilobytes, (i.e., 1024 bytes), which some politically correct folks insist should be the stupid-sounding ``kibibytes''. The same holds true for megabytes, also sometimes known as ``mebibytes'', or gigabytes, as the amazingly silly ``gibibytes''. Makes you want to gibber, doesn't it? I remember Ted really not liking the mebi-gibi siliness and he likes to let people know ;) However I am not sure what's not clear about it ? > Actual results: no specification at all regarding units megabytes and gigabytes. The documentation clearly specifies megabytes and gigabytes in the next sentence. -Lukas
That just What I aimed to avoid to display; that indeed what is readable. Does then 'mean real' – ISO 80000 or IEC 80000, international standard – apply to 'The same holds true for megabytes(...) or gigabytes'? Documentation will become at last specific and why not in clear English with no place for fantasy comments, when mention regarding the standard that units observe is provided – e.g. ISO/IEC 80000 standard –.
While I do understand that the wording is a bit "conversational", I do not think there is any confusion about what it means. It clearly says it's power-of-2. But I'll work upstream to rephrase it. Thanks! -Lukas
Power-of-2; indeed regarding the developer's – maintainer or whoever is in charge of the project– own 'kilobytes', which are here meant as 'real'. Though from that side we are just users. So according to your interpretation, all the others units should be understood as observing power-of-2 as well. Am I correct?
Yes, it's not just kilobytes, but megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes as well. -Lukas
That's what I suspected: these appellations would have to be reinterpreted in order to get the correct meanings which appeared at last to be that 'Power-of-2' is currently meant for 'powers of 1024' (Clause 4 of the Standard SO/IEC 80000 defines standard binary prefixes used to denote powers of 1024 e.g.as 1024^1 (kibi-).
e2fsprogs-1.44.6-1.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b4207428d3
e2fsprogs-1.44.6-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-b4207428d3
e2fsprogs-1.44.6-1.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.