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liticovjesac

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From: Stockholm-Belgrade-Köln

Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 110

thunar - pcmanfm different free space of same hdd

Hi
just noticed that thunar and pcmanfm show different free space size of my hdd. For a moment thunar shows 82 gb while pcmanfm shows 88 gb of free space. Conky goes along with thunar. Any idea?

jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Re: thunar - pcmanfm different free space of same hdd

Obviously Thunar uses a binary prefixes to specifiy the free space whereas pcmanfm employs a decimal prefix.
Wikipedia - Binary prefix