Missing hard drive space

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Tue Apr 21 13:09:54 UTC 2009


Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> 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 think you greatly overestimate how easy it is to just figure out stuff
like this from man pages and google...

OTOH, I also think this is a problem I would never be willing to tackle
unless it was hands on.

I wonder if MG might be within a stone's throw of a LUG or some such
where he can bring his PC and his gaggle of HD's for some help.




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