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Uri Herrera
Asked: 2011-02-02 14:25:06 +0800 CST

Is Nautilus reporting wrong free space?

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I have 87.2 GB left as shown by PCMANFM, but Nautilus shows only 81.3 GB, why is that, i've been using SHIFT+DEL to remove files so, i don't know why is this happening.

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    By the looks of it, Nautilus is reporting GiB ( = 1 073 741 824 bytes) and PCMANFM is reporting GB ( = 10^9 bytes).

    In other words:

    81.3 GiB = 81.3 * 1 073 741 824 bytes = 87.2952103 × 10^9 bytes = 87.2 GB

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