rescue mode: disk misspelt

[nodata]

Slightly embarrassingly, disk is misspeilt "disc" in the Ubuntu rescue mode.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:17:54AM -0000, nodata wrote:
> Slightly embarrassingly, disk is misspeilt "disc" in the Ubuntu rescue
> mode.

I don't see that. Where? Can you give me the context?

(Technically, "disc" is a British spelling, not a misspelling, although
it isn't normally used for computer disks in British English. All the
same, I wasn't aware of having used it.)

[nodata (ubuntu-nodata)]

I'm English - it's never used for computer terms, only for descriptions of shapes. "disk" is always used for computer terms.

To get to it, go to "rescue a broken system", then look at /dev/dis*

[nodata (ubuntu-nodata)]

Sorry just re-read your spelling note again.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

You mean that the spelling you're referring to is "/dev/discs/..."? Nothing I can do about that; it's what the device nodes are called. *shrug*

[nodata (ubuntu-nodata)]

How can I get this fixed?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This isn't really a bug, sorry. The only possible way to change it is to move away from the devfs-style naming scheme altogether; that is already on our agenda, although for reasons more significant than spelling. :-)