It's not just a MB vs megabytes issue. I set up Kubuntu 9.04 at the weekend. I was setting up a 15GB root partition, some swap, and the rest of my disk for /home.
At the top of the window, it showed the /home partition size as 139.7GB. Below that in the list of partitions, it showed it as 149987MB. When I went to create a partition, it asked me for the size in MB, and said 1MB = 1000000 bytes. So there are several problems here: 1. I'm guessing that the top of the window shows partition sizes in GiB, but labels them as GB, because of the fact that its number is smaller than the one in the actual partition list. 2. The figure shown in the partition list is incompatible with the figure shown at the top. 149987MB isn't 139.7GiB. Nor is 149987MiB. I can't find any way to reconcile the two values. 3. The dialog for creating a partition asks for a third unit, different from both the other two places. Since hard disks are measured in GB--that is, base 10, not base 2-- that's the obvious useful unit for the end user. I know that my hard disk is 160GB. I have no idea how big it is in base-2 units, and the average person is going to have a hard time calculating it. So, the ideal fix should be pretty simple: the main window ought to be changed to show GB/MB everywhere, like it claims it's already doing, and then all the UI stuff can be left the same. -- [Tribe1] Manual partitioning gives inconsistent units https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/120123 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
