[parted-devel] Sector size warning message

[Gary Greene]

On Monday 10 April 2006 03:32 pm, David Cantrell wrote:
> 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?

While it makes sense to me in the current wording, I can see a _possible_ 
issue for non-english speakers. How about Continue, and abort?

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