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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?

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lemmy.fmhy.ml

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.

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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

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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.

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lemmy.world

I tried to vim into the config file to change GiG to GB but I didn't find the option.

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