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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.
I'd like to add that GB is pronounced Gigabyte, and GiB is pronounced Gibibyte. For the full list of units you can check this
It’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.
GiB vs GB, but it shouldn't be that much difference at a really cursory look.
I tried to vim into the config file to change GiG to GB but I didn't find the option.
You're probably stuck with whatever it's telling you.
@Digester
Search DuckDuckGo (or google) for “854GiB to GB”. The result will show 916.9755GB. It’s the units difference.