On 30 Oct 2012 19:15 +0100, from kreij...@gmail.com (Goffredo Baroncelli): > On 2012-10-30 10:42, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> what is the difference between "unused" and "unallocated"? If there >> is no difference, I feel the same word should be used throughout. > > I had to use "Unused" instead of "Unallocated" because the first one is > shorter. In the tabular output of the command "btrfs fi disk-usage" I > have 10 columns available for every fields. 1 columns is used by the > space character, so I have only 9 characters available for the > description. "Unused" is 6 chars, "Unallocated" is 11 chars.... > The only options is to use "Unalloc." (8 chars)...
Or to simply use "unused" (or some other word like "free", "available", ...) throughout. I'm not so much concerned about the exact word being used as I feel the same word should be used throughout a UI to describe the same concept. Whether it's called "free" space, "unused" space, "unallocated" space or "fuzzbar'd" space is really beside the point. -- Michael Kjörling • http://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
