Package: sysstat Version: 11.6.0-1 Severity: wishlist Below is part of the output of "iostat -m" on one of my system. For reporting io speeds (the documented purpose of the -m option) megabytes per second is sufficient for today's hardware. But for reporting the overall transfer volumes gigabytes is needed for human readable results on busy systems.
Device: tps MB_read/s MB_wrtn/s MB_read MB_wrtn sdc 1185.03 148.12 0.00 2184932 0 sdf 1214.93 151.86 0.00 2240110 0 sde 1168.15 146.02 0.00 2153841 0 sdd 1177.88 147.23 0.00 2171778 0 sdp 1215.59 151.94 0.00 2241296 0 sdh 1185.65 148.20 0.00 2186127 0 sdq 1176.41 147.05 0.00 2169051 0 sdi 1115.68 139.46 0.00 2057114 0 sdm 607.45 0.00 151.86 7 2240020 sdn 592.65 0.00 148.16 7 2185408 sdb 590.90 0.05 147.01 709 2168555 sdk 588.76 0.00 147.18 7 2171082 sda 612.92 0.14 151.93 2075 2241123 sdl 584.07 0.00 146.01 7 2153777 sdj 592.37 0.00 148.08 12 2184341 sdo 557.77 0.00 139.43 7 2056757 md0 7.15 0.19 0.00 2760 46 sdg 0.01 0.00 0.00 3 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages sysstat depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.64 ii init-system-helpers 1.51 ii libc6 2.24-17 ii libsensors4 1:3.4.0-4 ii lsb-base 9.20170808 ii ucf 3.0036 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages sysstat recommends: ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-128.1 Versions of packages sysstat suggests: pn isag <none> -- debconf information excluded