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ubiquity package

[PATCH] "Use the entire disk" is unclear; please rename to "Erase and use the entire disk"

Bug #94382 reported by Michael Brunton-Spall on 2007-03-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Colin Watson

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Installing Kubuntu - Feisty Beta
Screenshot at http://www.bluewigwam.com/guided-partition.png

Installing over an existing OS, where there is very little spare room on the drive, the only options presented to the user are
Guided - use entire disk
Manual

I don't believe that "Guided - use entire disk" is clear enough for normal users that this means to erase all of the users data from their computer.

If given an choice between "Guided - use free space" and "Guided - use entire disk", it becomes a little clearer, but if there is insufficient space, or the Guided - use free space is not displayed for any reason, it is too vague a term for an operation that will destroy everything on the disk.

Related branches

lp:ubiquity

lp:ubuntu/lucid/ubiquity

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Michael Brunton-Spall (bruntonspall) wrote on 2007-03-21:

screenshot Edit (86.2 KiB, image/png)

attached screenshot

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2007-03-21

Changed in ubiquity:
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Jason Spiro (jasonspiro) on 2009-04-08

summary:

- "Guided - use entire disk" is not clear enough for normal users
+ "Use the entire disk" is unclear; please rename to "Erase and use the
+ entire disk"

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Jason Spiro (jasonspiro) wrote on 2009-04-08:

This bug bit me today. I accidentally erased my friend's main HDD and all the digital photos on it.

In Feisty beta, you wrote:
"Guided - use entire disk".
That text is not clear enough.

In Jaunty beta, you write:
"Use the entire disk".
Still not clear enough.

I think you should write:
"Erase and use the entire disk".
That will make it clear that the disk will be erased.

Dear devs: Agree or disagree?

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Jason Spiro (jasonspiro) wrote on 2009-06-14: Re: "Use the entire disk" is unclear; please rename to "Erase and use the entire disk"

Patch to change the string "Use the entire disk" to "Erase and use entire disk" Edit (816 bytes, text/plain)

Patch attached. It makes the single string change I proposed in my last comment. I have not tested the patch.

Of course please run debconf-updatepo after applying the patch.

summary:

- "Use the entire disk" is unclear; please rename to "Erase and use the
- entire disk"
+ [PATCH] "Use the entire disk" is unclear; please rename to "Erase and
+ use the entire disk"

Colin Watson (cjwatson) on 2009-07-02

affects:

partman-auto (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu)

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2009-07-02:

Thanks, Jason - committed and debconf-updatepo'd.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-07-08:

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.13.8

---------------
ubiquity (1.13.8) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Elaborate on the purpose of timezone selection in the heading, to
    better assist those confused about the need to select a city. Thanks
    Colin Watson.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Check that the home directory actually exists before running os.listdir
    on it in the select_ecryptfs function. (LP: #394338)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Clarify that "use the entire disk" really does mean erasing everything
    on it (thanks, Jason Spiro; LP: #94382).
  * Match up chroot_cleanup start-stop-daemon conditionals with
    chroot_setup, to avoid failing if the target filesystem didn't contain
    /sbin/start-stop-daemon for some reason (LP: #394669).
  * Fix manifest file handling, broken in 1.13.5 (LP: #395195).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: debian-installer-utils
    1.70ubuntu1, partconf 1.32, user-setup 1.27ubuntu4.