bin/183681: df(1): -h and -H option: manual page have them swapped

Robin Hahling robin.hahling at gw-computing.net
Tue Nov 5 12:20:01 UTC 2013


>Number:         183681
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       df(1): -h and -H option: manual page have them swapped
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 05 12:20:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robin Hahling
>Release:        10.0-BETA1
>Organization:
EPFL
>Environment:
FreeBSD odin-fbsd-current 10.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 #0 r256420: Sun Oct 13 01:43:07 UTC 2013     root at snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
The manual page of df(1) has the -h and -H options swapped.
The bug exists since 2012-11-16 and has been introduced by this commit (r243129):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2012-November/061588.html

-h option has historically been based on powers of 1024 whereas -H options on powers of 1000.

If you run the following:
% df -h; df -H
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2    112G    2.1G    101G     2%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2    121G    2.3G    109G     2%    /
devfs          1.0k    1.0k      0B   100%    /dev

You can notice that sizes with -H are actually larger, hence based on powers of 1000.

Thus, the manual page have them wrong (swapped), since the aforementioned commit:
     -H      ``Human-readable'' output.  Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kibibyte,
             Mebibyte, Gibibyte, Tebibyte and Pebibyte (based on powers of
             1024) in order to reduce the number of digits to four or fewer.

     -h      ``Human-readable'' output.  Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
             Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte (based on powers of
             1000) in order to reduce the number of digits to four or fewer.
>How-To-Repeat:
Have a look at the manual page and compare it with the output of df -h; df -H (or have a look at bin/df.c).
>Fix:


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