Re: 14.3-RELEASE gpart show output (?.?T) vs. 14.4 and 15.0 and main: why do 14.4 and 15.0 and main have some single significant digit (?T) size figures?

> On Apr 20, 2026, at 2:48 AM, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
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> 
>> On Apr 20, 2026, at 2:03 AM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com <mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 4/19/26 10:40, Zhenlei Huang wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 20, 2026, at 1:11 AM, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org>
>>>> <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 19, 2026, at 11:03 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com <mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com>
>>>>> <mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com <mailto:marklmi@yahoo.com>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 14.3-RELEASE (more useful):
>>>>> 
>>>>> =>        40  1875384928    da1  GPT  (894G)
>>>>> =>        40  2930277095    nda1  GPT  (1.4T)
>>>>> =>        34  2930277101    da0  GPT  (1.4T)
>>>>> =>        34  3907029101    nda0  GPT  (1.8T)
>>>>> =>        34  4000797293    nda3  GPT  (1.9T)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 14.4-RELEASE and 15.0-RELEASE and main (less useful):
>>>>> 
>>>>> =>        40  1875384928    da1  GPT  (894G)
>>>>> =>        40  2930277095    nda1  GPT  (1T)
>>>>> =>        34  2930277101    da0  GPT  (1T)
>>>>> =>        34  3907029101    nda0  GPT  (2T)
>>>>> =>        34  4000797293    nda3  GPT  (2T)
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It appears to be caused by 4f809ffec69c (gpart: add libxo support for
>>>> "show" subcommand + man page updates) .
>>>> 
>>>> Prior to the change the size was formatted to human friendly format by
>>>> `fmtsize(pp->lg_mediasize))` which in turn calls 
>>>> ```
>>>> humanize_number(buf, sizeof(buf), rawsz, "", HN_AUTOSCALE,
>>>>            HN_B | HN_NOSPACE | HN_DECIMAL);
>>>> ```,
>>>> 
>>>> now it is formatted with 
>>>> ```
>>>> xo_emit("  ({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp->lg_mediasize);
>>>> ```
>>>> 
>>>> It appears that libxo does not handle well with numbers those exceed
>>>> 10^12, ( 1 Terabyte in this case ).
>>> 
>>> Try this patch please, not a full fix for all the "size" column,
>>> 
>>> ```
>>> Author: Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org> <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org <mailto:zlei@FreeBSD.org>>>
>>> Date:   Mon Apr 20 01:38:21 2026 +0800
>>> 
>>>     geom_part: Fix the format of size
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>>> index 852eec2d790a..ca3c5f2c27c3 100644
>>> --- a/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>>> +++ b/lib/geom/part/geom_part.c
>>> @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ gpart_show_geom(struct ggeom *gp, const char
>>> *element, int show_providers)
>>>                 }
>>>                 if (idx)
>>>                         xo_emit("]");
>>> -               xo_emit("  ({h:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp->lg_mediasize);
>>> +               xo_emit("  ({h,hn-decimal:size/%jd})\n", (intmax_t)pp-
>>>> lg_mediasize);
>>>                 xo_close_instance(s);
>>>                 first = end + 1;
>>>         }
>>> ```
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> ===
>>>>> Mark Millard
>>>>> marklmi at yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/> <http://yahoo.com/ <http://yahoo.com/>>
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Zhenlei
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Zhenlei
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm in the middle of other building-port-packages timing tests on the
>> systems. So I'll wait on doing the above.
> 
> See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514 <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D56514> for the full patch.

Fixed in https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0d16792c6e983005581ed0176ed81e7302582196 <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0d16792c6e983005581ed0176ed81e7302582196> .

Thanks for your report !

> 
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>> 
>> -- 
>> ===
>> Mark Millard
>> marklmi at yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com/>
> 
> Best regards,
> Zhenlei