@DoctorG said in Option to select binary or decimal units for file sizes:
@Levrini Hmm, i understand you want to measure the used disk space by MiB instead MB.
I respect this.
For me, in real life its makes no sense for mass storage to know the correct size, this 2 percent difference between 1000 and 1024 is less relevant for me.
The only part of world i liked know the correct size, is networking how many packets with how many Bytes the data stream will consume sending or receiving thru Internet. 😉
Fortunately we do not have anymore the old times of PDP/11 with magnetic tapes or µC with 64 KByte RAM or CP/M PCs or Apple ][ when i was a kid.
Well, it is 2% difference if we talk about 1000 and 1024, and I can get why on such small numbers it is acceptable. But my "Downloads" directory shows me rounded size as 9.4gb, while it is actually 9,412,422,017 bytes and it is 8.76gb.