Missing hard drive space

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Tue, April 21, 2009 10:28, jdow wrote:

> I don't know if he asked earlier than this about the feasibility of
> a configuration such as he is trying to setup.

In hindsight I think the best advice might have been that he throws away
all of his disks and buys one internal disk of 1 TiB, and perhaps only one
external disk, also 1 TiB. Less headache, less disks to worry about.

For people that like to play with disks of different sizes in an external
enclosure, they should look at drobo. Unfortunately it's proprietary
technology. :-(

> Nor do I know if he met a
> polite and informative response rather than a rant.

He did get polite and informative responses, even before your rant.

> Hopefully he did get it usable, save his data, and discovered he can
> learn and do it himself.

I seriously doubt the learning part...

> If I gave him that last gift I'm happy.

... but if you want to think that, who am I to spoil your happiness?

> 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.

On the one hand, I am seriously considering the getting paid thing. On the
other hand, I often think that I don't know that much about Linux. Or any
other OS. (I'm currently getting paid to know Windows - only to know it,
not to use it or to like it.)

-- 
Amedee