Package: partconf, partitioner Severity: normal Tags: d-i partitioner refers to disks using their devfs device names and a bit of info about the drive manufacturer and size), while partconf uses a physical description such as "IDE1 master, part. 1". It would be good design to use the same terminology throughout. I suspect that partconf's method would be more accessible to the avarage user, but perhaps more likely to break down with weird and unusual types of drives. partitioner's method can be very effective too -- when I see a SCSI device called "jumpdrive" and see the same term on the side of my USB keychain, I know what drive that is. Most effective might be a display that combines all of these: IDE1 master (Generic foo), 256 MB IDE1 master (Generic foo), partition 1, 256 MB If a standalone program were broken out of parts of the two packages to map between devfs devices and human readable strings, then it could possibly be used elsewhere in the installer too. For example, my iso-scan package displays raw devfs device names to the user right now. (BTW, the "part." abbreviation in partconf seems rather unnecessary. Writing out "partition" should easily fit in the available space. Or at least don't abbreviate it when it will fit.) -- see shy jo
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