On 30 Oct 2012 19:15 +0100, from kreijack@gmail.com (Goffredo Baroncelli):

On 2012-10-30 10:42, Michael Kjörling wrote:

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what is the difference between "unused" and "unallocated"? If there
is no difference, I feel the same word should be used throughout.

I had to use "Unused" instead of "Unallocated" because the first one is
shorter. In the tabular output of the command "btrfs fi disk-usage" I
have 10 columns available for every fields. 1 columns is used by the
space character, so I have only 9 characters available for the
description. "Unused" is 6 chars, "Unallocated" is 11 chars....
The only options is to use "Unalloc." (8 chars)...

Or to simply use "unused" (or some other word like "free",
"available", ...) throughout.

I'm not so much concerned about the exact word being used as I feel
the same word should be used throughout a UI to describe the same
concept. Whether it's called "free" space, "unused" space,
"unallocated" space or "fuzzbar'd" space is really beside the point.

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