Missing hard drive space

[jdow]

From: "Eberhard Roloff" <tuxebi at gmx.de>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 00:00


> jdow wrote:
> 
> 
>> And I certainly appreciate your trying to help him. I'm trying to help
>> him, too. Together we can probably beat his problem.
>> 
> My respect to the two of you. I appreciate your brave attitude and your 
> unbeatable optimism!
> 
> I counted way more than 100! Mails scatterred around various threads on 
> this list, just relating to this single problem. It is the problem  of 
> one person, unwilling to do homework, but nevertheless wanting to use 5 
> different harddisks, nearly all of them derived from windows, on his 
> linux machine.
> 
> This is perfectly doable in very near to no time, when you have a look 
> at man pages, know to use google and ask the occassional question on 
> your favourite mailinglist.
> 
> My conclusion is that there are indeeed some people in this world that 
> might better continue to work with Windows.
> Imho they will not see the light....

Eberhard, I always suggest to people who ask me about operating systems
choices that they pick the one with the applications they are most
comfortable using be it Apple, Windows, Linux, BSD, BeOS, whatever.

This fellow seemed to be intent on getting out of the Windows spiral of
despair. I suspect he may be discovering that any OS can be a spiral of
despair if you don't care to learn some of its basics.

I don't know if he asked earlier than this about the feasibility of
a configuration such as he is trying to setup. Nor do I know if he
met a polite and informative response rather than a rant. If you
gentlepersons would give folks like him good information, even if
the suggestion you have to give rubs you raw, you'd earn a rather
remarkable reputation that would draw people in.

(And, yes, when I am trying to do something like he is crying I keep
consulting man pages so that I do get it right. I didn't have time to
do that, hence my memory lapse.)

Hopefully he did get it usable, save his data, and discovered he can
learn and do it himself. If I gave him that last gift I'm happy.
I may hate learning. But I really love having learned. I like to share
that kick with others. It's addictive; but, it's free, too. And you can
even get paid for it.

{^_-}