btop++ show different reading than DUA
btop++ show different reading than DUA
I'm using EndeavourOS. I installed btop++ as well as Disk Usage Analyzer. Both give me different disk space information.
I know I don't have 60gb worth of files on my system for sure, DUA confirms that. How can I get btop++ to read the correct disk space usage?
It seems like one is showing GiB and the other GB, which are two different units.
KB = 1000B KiB = 1024B
Which doesn't seem significant but it adds up.
5I'd like to add that GB is pronounced Gigabyte, and GiB is pronounced Gibibyte. For the full list of units you can check this
4It’s not this significant (3x). it should be closer to 7%. My guess is that OP is using something like btrfs, whose data used is calculated differently due to the CoW nature, and btop++ is using using a generic tool to estimate disk usage rather than the btrfs utility that DUA is almost certainly using.
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