reassign 684128 partman-partitioning
thanks
Quoting Ian Bruce (ian_bruce@fastmail.net):
> Possible solutions:
>
> 1 - AT AN ABSOLUTE MINIMUM: at the point where the use of metric
> suffixes is suggested, explain that these really are decimal, so that
> people who want the binary values know that they need to write them out,
> as above.
>
> 2 - Give the suffixes the same binary values that many people would
> expect them to have, and explain this. There is no need to support the
> hard disk manufacturers' deceptive marketing strategy. Flash drives are
> not specified with decimal units. (Are they?)
>
> 3 - Let the user choose at the beginning of partitioning whether these
> units will have binary or decimal meanings, both for specifying new
> partitions and volumes, and reporting those that are already present, as
> well as the sizes of physical media.
>
> 4 - The disk partitioner is presumably based on GNU parted, which allows
> either binary ("KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB") or decimal ("KB", "MB", "GB",
> "TB") units to be used. Explain to the user that they may specify any of
> these units, and pass them through to parted.
>
> 5 - Solution (4) leaves open the question of what units will be used to
> report volume/partition/disk status. Parted provides the "unit" command
> for this purpose, as well as that of solution (3). Perhaps this should
> be made available as a menu option, or in some other way.
>
> 6 - Alternatively, if the size of some disk volume is an exact multiple
> of 2^{10,20,30,40}, report it using the appropriate binary unit,
> otherwise with a decimal unit.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/unit.html
>
> Hopefully something can be done about this problem before the next major
> release.
All of theseimply too invasive changes in the installer, particularly
in translatable material. This is zero chance that anything is done at
this point of the release.
This issue will have to be worked on for jessie, not for
wheezy. Hopefully someone will come with a patch (I somehow doubt it
as I think that only incredibly picky people really do care about
differencesbetween MB and MiB......but, who knows?).
Anyway, reassigning this to the package it belongs to.
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