[gentoo-dev] Re: s/disk space/drive space

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Brannon
Jeroen Roovers j...@gentoo.org writes: Also, drive space would be dead wrong. A drive[1] is a device which holds a storage medium (often a disk, as in, you know, a disk drive). Solid-state drive is even more confusing than solid-state disk (and both are common parlance). In the interest of

[gentoo-dev] Re: s/disk space/drive space

2013-07-30 Thread Duncan
Ulrich Mueller posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:57:52 +0200 as excerpted: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Alexander Berntsen wrote: On 30/07/13 14:12, Alex Legler wrote: 'disk space' is a perfectly valid term even if you have fancy solid state drives these days. It is an established term in technical

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: s/disk space/drive space

2013-07-30 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Duncan wrote: OTOH, the free space or space available suggestions I saw elsewhere do make a lot of sense and avoid both the disc and mechanical drive implications. It's also closer to the common LANG=C expando of ENOSPC. Whatever the underlying physical thing is,