diff --git a/include/ucore/string.h b/include/ucore/string.h
index fa586bb..6865403 100644
--- a/include/ucore/string.h
+++ b/include/ucore/string.h
@@ -77,11 +77,15 @@ int
 getfields(char *str, char **args, int max, int mflag, const char *set);
 
 //Converts bytes to a human representable test, (i.e. 12kB, 160 MB 1.78 GB etc.)
-//Conversion is done in decimal (base 10 ,1 kB == 1000 bytes)
 ///result should be at least of size 12,
 ///returns the result argument
 char *
-uc_human_bytesz(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len);
+uc_human_bytesz_dec(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len);
+
+//same as uc_human_bytesz_bin, but Conversion is done in binary 
+//(base 2 ,1 KiB == 1024 bytes)
+char *
+uc_human_bytesz_bin(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len);
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/src/human_bytesz.c b/src/human_bytesz.c
index 00edcb4..ab8f658 100644
--- a/src/human_bytesz.c
+++ b/src/human_bytesz.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #include "ucore/string.h"
 
 char *
-uc_human_bytesz(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len)
+uc_human_bytesz_dec(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len)
 {
     if (bytes < 1000) {
         snprintf(result, result_len, "%" PRIu64 " b", bytes);
@@ -22,3 +22,22 @@ uc_human_bytesz(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len)
     return result;
 }
 
+char *
+uc_human_bytesz_bin(uint64_t bytes, char *result, size_t result_len)
+{
+    if (bytes < 1024) {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%" PRIu64 " b", bytes);
+    } else if (bytes < 1048576) {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%.2f KiB", bytes/1024.0);
+    } else if (bytes < 1073741824ULL) {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%.2f MiB", bytes/1048576.0);
+    } else if (bytes < 1099511627776ULL) {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%.2f GiB", bytes/1073741824.0);
+    } else if (bytes < 1125899906842624ULL) {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%.2f TiB", bytes/1099511627776.0);
+    } else {
+        snprintf(result, result_len, "%.2f PiB", bytes/1125899906842624.0);
+    }
+
+    return result;
+}
diff --git a/test/test_human_bytesz.c b/test/test_human_bytesz.c
index c3819d9..9a1d760 100644
--- a/test/test_human_bytesz.c
+++ b/test/test_human_bytesz.c
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_bytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(999, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(999, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "999 b");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(999, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "999 b");
 END_TEST
@@ -15,7 +19,11 @@ START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_bytes_0)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(0, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(0, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "0 b");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(0, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "0 b");
 END_TEST
@@ -24,45 +32,65 @@ START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_kilobytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(64000, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(64000, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "64.00 kB");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(64000, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "62.50 KiB");
 END_TEST
 
 START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_megabytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(6409000, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(6409000, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "6.41 MB");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(6409000, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "6.11 MiB");
 END_TEST
 
 START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_gigabytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(126999400000, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(126999400000, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "127.00 GB");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(126999400000, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "118.28 GiB");
 END_TEST
 
 START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_terrabytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(12453400030000, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(12453400030000, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "12.45 TB");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(12453400030000, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "11.33 TiB");
 END_TEST
 
 START_TEST (test_human_bytesz_petabytes)
     char result[128];
     char *rc;
 
-    rc = uc_human_bytesz(~0LL, result, sizeof result);
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_dec(~0LL, result, sizeof result);
     fail_if(rc == NULL);
     ck_assert_str_eq(result, "18446.74 PB");
+
+    rc = uc_human_bytesz_bin(~0ULL, result, sizeof result);
+    fail_if(rc == NULL);
+    ck_assert_str_eq(result, "16384.00 PiB");
 END_TEST