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Bug 689362 - Should be possible to enter partition size in GB
Should be possible to enter partition size in GB
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-disk-utility
Classification: Core
Component: Disks UI
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-disk-utility-maint
gnome-disk-utility-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-30 17:01 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2012-12-01 14:02 UTC
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Description Federico Mena Quintero 2012-11-30 17:01:50 UTC
The "Create partition" dialog has these:

1. Slider to visually set the partition size with respect to free space
2. Numerical entry for partition size in MB
3. Numerical entry for free space in MB

I have a 1 TB hard drive, and wanted a 700 GB partition.  Not paying much attention to the label beside the entry in (2), I typed "700".  I thought, "why does the slider not update" - in fact it did, but it was showing 700 MB, almost nothing compared to the full 1 TB range of the slider.

Then I realized that it was *megabytes*, not gigabytes.  I had to do "700 * 1024" in a calculator and type that in.

Maybe instead of

  [_____] MB

there should be a drop-down for MB/GB?

  [_____] [v GB]
Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2012-11-30 17:16:55 UTC
I guess we could do this.

We'd want two combo-boxes, both for "Partition Size" and "Free Space Following" and keep them synchronized. And then default to something sane so numbers are 3-ish digits. Heck, we could even include nerdy units like MiB and GiB.

We could also just default to whatever unit is appropriate - in the 1TB disk case it would be GB - and not have any combo boxes _at all). But then you have the "power users" complaining, for example bug 643159 comment 4.

The easiest thing is probably to just add the combo boxes.
Comment 3 Federico Mena Quintero 2012-12-01 14:02:33 UTC
Nice, thank you!