[parted-devel] Sector size warning message
David Cantrell
dcantrell at redhat.com
Mon Apr 10 19:32:19 UTC 2006
The if block on lines 370-384 in libparted/linux.c (I'm looking at
parted-1.6.25.1) present a warning message if your sector size isn't 512
bytes. The message itself is a little confusing, but the options
presented to the user are ambigious. The message:
The sector size on /dev/XYZ is NNNN bytes. Parted is known not to
work properly with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
Ignore/Cancel?
The message fails to explain what Ignore and Cancel do. Selecting
ignore means ignore the warning and continue with the detected sector
size whereas cancel means to force a 512 byte sector size.
Both 'Ignore' and 'Cancel' are bad words to use here. Does anyone have
any suggestions for better wording on this message?
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David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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