### Please describe the problem. `git annex status` inconsistently uses mebi (SI) and giga (informal) prefixes. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? Example: [[!format txt """ anarcat@marcos:mp3$ git annex status supported backends: SHA256E SHA1E SHA512E SHA224E SHA384E SHA256 SHA1 SHA512 SHA224 SHA384 WORM URL supported remote types: git S3 bup directory rsync web glacier hook repository mode: direct trusted repositories: 0 semitrusted repositories: 2 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web b7802161-c984-4c9f-8d05-787a29c41cfe -- here (anarcat@marcos:/srv/mp3) untrusted repositories: 0 transfers in progress: none available local disk space: 31.93 gigabytes (+1 megabyte reserved) local annex keys: 19913 local annex size: 111.08 gigabytes known annex keys: 20085 known annex size: 111.38 gigabytes bloom filter size: 16 mebibytes (3.1% full) backend usage: SHA256E: 39998 """]] Notice `mebibytes` and `gigabytes`. It is unclear whether those are gigabytes (1000^3) or gibibytes (1024^3). ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 4.20130802~bpo70+2, Debian wheezy. ### Please provide any additional information below. nil. --[[anarcat]] > git-annex consistently uses the powers of ten units > for disk storage sizes. Its "gigabyte" is the SI gigabyte. > > It uses the absurdly named units for powers of 2 for memory sizes, > in the few places it deals with memory (probably only the above bloom > filter size number). > > AFAIK I am complying with all relevant standards and best practices. > Even though I consider them rather dumb, as is clear if you > [read the opionated source code I wrote to handle this](). > > If git-annex used "gibibyte", the numbers it reports for disk size > would not match the numbers disk vendors and most tools use. > > [[bug_is_in_world_not_in_git-annex|done]] --[[Joey]]