I disagree with "Filesystem" not being a word. This is about what term you are used to seeing and what you are comfortable with. That said, I don't have a strong opinion against "File System" even though I prefer the single word form.

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> I disagree with "Filesystem" not being a word.

Feel free to find the definition for me in a reputable dictionary.

*** Bug 575320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Gah, maybe if I commented on the right bug. Anyway, here we go again:

Kinda disagree we should change this. Filesystem is just an alternate spelling,
at least Wiktionary and Wikipedia says it's fine

 http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/filesystem
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem

I personally "File System" looks like an eyesore.. and in Palimpsest /
gnome-disk-utility / etc. I'm already using "Filesystem" instead of "File
System".

Just my two cents.

At this point, I don't care which one you choose, as long as it's always the same one. I'll probably get bounced back here if somebody is equally intent on making it their problem in gtk+.

Ideally the file chooser, the file manager and things like gedit's file browser sidepane would share a common widget provided by GTK+ for listing user-visible mounts... right now, not only the look is different, the feel is different too. Someone just need to write one and then sell the idea...

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Some (maybe) interesting data, in case we would want a desktop-wide solution for this:

Microsoft has only File System in their terminology database: 

http://www.microsoft.com/language/en/us/search.mspx

Apple's glossary: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=51913
uses File system too.

In the 2.28 module set UI, we use mostly the filesystem form:

gabor@gabor-desktop:~/gnome-translations/development$ grep -irc "file system" * | grep -v 0$
anjuta.master.hu.po:2
brasero.master.hu.po:2
gedit.master.hu.po:1
gnome-control-center.master.hu.po:1
gnome-disk-utility.master.hu.po:28
gnome-panel.master.hu.po:1
gnome-system-monitor.master.hu.po:2
gnome-system-tools.master.hu.po:1
gnome-utils.master.hu.po:1
gnome-vfs.master.hu.po:3
gtk+.master.hu.po:3
gtk+-properties.master.hu.po:2
gvfs.master.hu.po:2
nautilus.master.hu.po:7
gabor@gabor-desktop:~/gnome-translations/development$ grep -irc "filesystem" * | grep -v 0$
brasero.master.hu.po:2
gconf.master.hu.po:1
glade3.master.hu.po:1
glib.master.hu.po:2
gnome-settings-daemon.master.hu.po:1
gnome-system-monitor.master.hu.po:4
gnome-system-tools.master.hu.po:1
gnome-utils.master.hu.po:24
gnome-vfs.master.hu.po:51
gtk+.master.hu.po:4
gvfs.master.hu.po:11
libgnome.master.hu.po:2
nautilus.master.hu.po:3
tomboy.master.hu.po:7
yelp.master.hu.po:1

Silly me. Grepping out comments before counting makes the difference negligible:
gabor@gabor-desktop:~/gnome-translations/development$ grep -v ^# * | grep -ic "file system"
53
gabor@gabor-desktop:~/gnome-translations/development$ grep -v ^# * | grep -ic "filesystem"
50

Created attachment 149053 [details] [review]
Changes "Filesystem" to "File System"

Here's a patch from the Launchpad bug by Bryce Harrington to fix the inconsistency depicted here: http://img.xrmb2.net/images/242451.png

There doesn't seem to be much of a "File System" vs "Filesystem" debate, and if "File System" is used in Windows and Mac OS, and we all agree that we should not be consistent, can someone please apply this patch?

"we all agree that we /should/ be consistent"

/me slaps forehead

I've pinged alex on IRC who said to commit the change, I've done that now

Can we have a little consistency here ?

$ grep Filesystem gvfs.pot 
msgid "%s Filesystem Service"
msgid "Audio CD Filesystem Service"
msgid "Filesystem is busy"
msgid "Windows Shares Filesystem Service"
msgid "Windows Network Filesystem Service"

Created attachment 219915 [details] [review]
Unify all "file system" spelling in gvfs

Pushed to master, thanks for the patch:

commit a7e673e5c3b190e00b8b443105ef9a0b6aa3fea7
Author: Felix Möller <mail@felixmoeller.de>
Date:   Tue Jul 31 11:15:17 2012 +0200

    Spelling correction "filesystem" -> "file system"
    
    Unify the spelling. For the discussion see:
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520902
    
    Signed-off-by: Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com>