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Re: Bug#684128: src:debian-installer: allow use of binary units in disk partitioner



Holger Wansing wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>:
>> Could this information (valid unit sufficēs) be added to the dialogue
>> where the size is entered? Screen space should suffice.
[...]
> CC'ing debian-l10n-english for template review (three identical additions
> in two packages).
[...]
>   Hint: "max" can be used as a shortcut to specify the maximum size, or
>   enter a percentage (e.g. "20%") to use that percentage of the maximum size.
> + You can specify partition sizes in decimal units (like MB or GB) as well as
> + in binary units (like GiB or TiB).

Looks good to me.  Mind you, this makes the passive voice in the first
line a bit more of a stylistic and syntactic mismatch, so I might
suggest changing it to

    Hint: you can use "max" as a shortcut to specify the maximum size, or

throughout...
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package


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