Debian Bug report logs - #705297
disk sizes mixing SI and binary units

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Package: virtualbox-qt; Maintainer for virtualbox-qt is Debian Virtualbox Team <[email protected]>; Source for virtualbox-qt is src:virtualbox (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:24:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: upstream

Found in version virtualbox/4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Debian Virtualbox Team <[email protected]>:
Bug#705297; Package virtualbox-qt. (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:24:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Debian Virtualbox Team <[email protected]>. (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:24:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Daniel Pocock <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: disk sizes mixing SI and binary units
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:20:06 +0200
Package: virtualbox-qt
Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u1

Creating a new VDI disk image in the wizard

It shows 8.00 GB

It should say it is 8.00 GiB  or  8.6GB





Severity set to 'minor' from 'normal' Request was from Felix Geyer <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:03:14 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Added tag(s) upstream. Request was from Felix Geyer <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:03:15 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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