Debian Bug report logs - #798465
grub-installer: Please show size as well as the device id when selecting target

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Package: grub-installer; Maintainer for grub-installer is Debian Install System Team <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 17:03:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version grub-installer/1.126

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Subject: Re: Bug#798465: grub-installer: Please show size as well as the device
 id when selecting target
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:42:24 +0100
Samuel Thibault wrote:

> That can be useful indeed. Perhaps rather show the size first, like in
> partman, in case the name is really long?

I also thought of this, but a combination of device identifiers often
only varying in their suffix and device sizes hardly being unique (!),
for safety I believe we should prioritise showing the id before any
possible truncation occurs.


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