diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3db4a804..57519a4f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ xx/xx/2006 - 1.13.1-WIP
 	  index allocation attributes as well. This further decreases the 
 	  compressed metadata image size by 10-25% and more importantly it
 	  eliminates non-interesting ntfscmp differences.  (Szaka)
+	- Change utils_parse_size() to use a base of 0 instead of 10 when
+	  calling strtoll().  This automagically allows specification of
+	  numbers in hex (and octal if anyone is crazy enough to use that) in
+	  addition to decimal numbers on the command line options to most if
+	  not all utilities.  (Anton)
 
 27/02/2006 - 1.13.0 - Lots and lots and lots of fixes and enhancements.
 
diff --git a/ntfsprogs/utils.c b/ntfsprogs/utils.c
index 2be2bc53..72b77844 100644
--- a/ntfsprogs/utils.c
+++ b/ntfsprogs/utils.c
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ ntfs_volume * utils_mount_volume(const char *device, unsigned long flags, BOOL f
 }
 
 #endif
+
 /**
  * utils_parse_size - Convert a string representing a size
  * @value:  String to be parsed
@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ int utils_parse_size(const char *value, s64 *size, BOOL scale)
 
 	ntfs_log_debug("Parsing size '%s'.\n", value);
 
-	result = strtoll(value, &suffix, 10);
+	result = strtoll(value, &suffix, 0);
 	if (result < 0 || errno == ERANGE) {
 		ntfs_log_error("Invalid size '%s'.\n", value);
 		return 0;