Rolf Leggewie seems to be in the same camp as Theodore Ts'o, author of the infamous resize2fs man pages. Where Theodore also finds the IEC/IEEE terminology "ridiculous", he at least spells out what units resize2fs does use. Not so with system-config-lvm and its command-line counterparts (lvreduce and others).
Getting the file system and logical volume extents wrong because the units are poorly explained in the man pages or the GUI can cause entire partitions to be lost. That's not "ridiculous", it's tragic. I'm firmly with David D. Lowe on this issue: stick to IEC/IEEE terminology, and spell it out in the man pages and the GUI, like the Disk Utility (palimpsest) does. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1081219 Title: UI violates Ubuntu's unit policy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-lvm/+bug/1081219/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
