[Bug 572016] Re: Disk check message is grammatically incorrect

[Bryce Harrington]

I've used nstenz's patch with some of Jay's suggestions.  I agree with
the comma and semicolon changes.  I put periods on the ends of all the
user visible statements; I tend to agree they look like they need them.
I chose to say 'several minutes' instead of 'few minutes' since fsck's
can sometimes take a significant amount of time.

I think there is a good point made that 'disk drive' seems jargonish,
but 'disk' and 'drive' have non-computer meanings that I could imagine
being confused ("What; has my computer turned into a chiropractor?")
I've opted to leave that change out and retain 'disk drive' for now; it
could use further discussion in a new bug report, though.

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Title:
  Disk check message is grammatically incorrect

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: plymouth

  I got my first message that Ubuntu was checking my disk drives today.
  The message said "Your disk drives are being checked for errors, this
  may take some time"

  This is grammatically incorrect.  That message contains 2 separate
  statements thrown together with a comma and the second one has no end
  punctuation.  One possible solution would be to change it to "Your
  disk drives are being checked for errors.  This may take some time."
  I removed the comma, replaced it with a period, capitalized the "T" in
  "This" and added a period at the end of the second sentence.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: plymouth 0.8.2-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Apr 29 22:43:20 2010
  DefaultPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-logo/ubuntu-logo.plymouth
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1)
  MachineType: LENOVO 7658CTO
  PccardctlIdent:
   Socket 0:
     no product info available
  PccardctlStatus:
   Socket 0:
     no card
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=6ac238c0-05e2-47fc-a270-4535ccc41b34 ro quiet splash
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  SourcePackage: plymouth
  TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth
  dmi.bios.date: 07/01/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 7LETC1WW (2.21 )
  dmi.board.name: 7658CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC1WW(2.21):bd07/01/2008:svnLENOVO:pn7658CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn7658CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 7658CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO