MiB in gparted?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> I am one of those who think it's important to separate MB from MiB (and GB
> from GiB etc etc), just for the simple reason that there is a big
> difference. It's not htat hard either: 1 MB = 10⁶ bytes = 1000000 bytes, 1
> MiB = 2²⁰ bytes = 1048576 bytes.
> 
> However, I can't really say that I can see clearly why MiB is necessary
> these days. Why not just skip it and only use MB, GB and so on, really
> meaning MB, GB and so on?

Because base-10 prefixes are totally disconnected from the way computers
actually operate.  For instance, you'll never (disclaimer: never say
never) find a 500 byte block size.

Matt Flaschen