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

[Damien Genet]

salut,

le lun 10-09-2001 at 23:32 Andrew Clausen écrit :
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Damien Genet wrote:
> > le lun 10-09-2001 at 02:19 Andrew Clausen a érit :
> > > Anyway, I don't really care.  Up to The Users TM to decide!  Send in
> > > your votes!
> > > 
> > > (a) length only
> > > (b) length and % used  (might spill some lines, with, say, "lba, boot",
> > > remember we have translations to worry about...)
> > > (c) % used only
> > > (d) MB used only
> > > (e) something else?
> > 
> > maybe size + end is rendundant, imho size is more "speaking" :
> 
> Just, you might want to know where you can put the start of the next
> partition.  That would require mental arithmatic.

you will use the start of the next partition, that will be the same that
the end of this partition (in MB)

> > as you can see the end, just looking for the start of the next partition
> > (or the next freespace)
> > also showing too much (and redundant) informations will just lost the
> > user, i think.
> 
> Hmmm interesting idea... showing free space to get the "next start"
> information.
> 
> > also, what do you meen by "% used" : percentage of space used on the
> > filesystem or percentage of the disk used by this partition ?
> 
> % of space used on the file system.  Although, maybe both are useful?

well, % of space used on the file system is usefull when you want to
shrink the filesystem, you have an approximation of how much you can
shrink it
% of disk usage, seems a bit redunded for me
(yes, yes, if you didn't understand, this is my main leitmotiv in this
letter ;)

> > > BTW, in pt_BR, Eliphas (oi!) translated "Filesystem" as "Sistema de
> > > Arquivos", which is a bit long (System of files).  Would "Sistema"
> > > suffice?  Or "Sistema/Arqs"?
> > > 
> > > fr has "Système de fichier plein!"
> > 
> > s/fichier/fichiers
> > (plural)
> > but this is the translation for "full filesystem!"
> > filesystem is just "système de fichiers".
> 
> Oops, that's a fuzzy translation.  (i.e. the translation is "stale" from
> the .po)  Anyway, "système de fichiers" is still rather long...
> (Don't .fr's like doing "système d'fichiers"?  But that saves only 1
> character...)

absolutely not,
french only contract vowel (and then it's not an option, you have to do
it) 
there is also nothing shorter in french for filesystem

> > a+,
> 
> t+ :P

this is the contraction for "a plus tard" ~ see you later
(or talk to you later, is better there ;)


a+, :)

-- 
Dam

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