Re: address@hidden: Bug#109613: Size column in partition list]

[Damien Genet]

yop,

le mar 11-09-2001 at 08:50 Andrew Clausen a érit :
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Damien Genet wrote:
> > you will use the start of the next partition, that will be the same that
> > the end of this partition (in MB)
> 
> There might be free space in between.
> (Hence display free space too)

yes, of course

> > % of disk usage, seems a bit redunded for me
> > (yes, yes, if you didn't understand, this is my main leitmotiv in this
> > letter ;)
> 
> Well, it depends on how the user thinks.  If they think, I want to give
> half to conectiva, and half to debian... % is more convienient.

hmm, so maybe
"size (% of disk usage)"
but maybe percantage of disk usage + percentage of filesystem usage will
just loose the user

> You can't even do something like "fs"?  (In english, technical users >
> would recognise it easily)

you can use the english "fs", as technical users will understand it, but
it's not french, and non technical users will certainly be lost
but then, don't translate anything ;) 

also, most people are completly lost with the difference between a
partition and a filesystem, (and also many of them don't even know what
a partition is, they buy harddisks, not partitions !)
Parted already minimize the difference between partitions and
filesystem, maybe there should be no difference at all fo the users (eg:
mkpart and mkfs, the first should disapear, or only be available in
advanced mode)

> t+ == Até mais == until more == see you later
> 
> * clausen is amazed that fr_IRC exists...

:)
and now you know a new fr_IRC greeting


a+,
 
-- 
Dam

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