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From: J G Miller on 29 Sep 2009 08:30 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:11:23 +0200, DenverD wrote: > since Mr. Bill can hire them to evangelize Mr Bill? Surely you mean Mr Steve Balmer?
From: DenverD on 29 Sep 2009 10:26 > Mr Bill? Surely you mean Mr Steve Balmer? i can't tell the difference between the business practices of the two, can you? -- DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (20090817), KDE 3.5.7 "release 72-11", openSUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.19-0.4-default #1 SMP i686 athlon
From: David Bolt on 29 Sep 2009 12:50 On Tuesday 29 Sep 2009 15:26, DenverD played with alphabet spaghetti and left this residue on the plate: >> Mr Bill? Surely you mean Mr Steve Balmer? > > i can't tell the difference between the business practices of the two, > can you? There's some differences in the business practices of both of them. One has his hands on the chair-removal business while the other has some hands-on experience of the catering, and possibly the dry cleaning business. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2m7 RISC OS 3.6 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02
From: Happy Oyster on 29 Sep 2009 17:26 On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:40:53 -0500, user <user(a)invalid.com> wrote: >Happy Oyster wrote: > >> >> You are ignorant of engineering work, and you are proud of it. This is the >> typical behavior of so many Linuxers. >> >> It is sad. > > > >X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 >Just what I thought: a troll from the winblows world. No. As there is no Agent available for Linux, the only way to use it is to have it in a VM. -- Interview mit dem Autor der "Reimbibel" http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=14183
From: Happy Oyster on 29 Sep 2009 17:30
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:04:11 +0200, Eef Hartman <E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: >Happy Oyster wrote: >> Does fdisk overwrite some values, this way destroying something? I mean OTHER >> values than the cylinder numbers. > >No, it ONLY writes the 16 bytes of the partition info. Nothing else! >This is _NOT_ Windows, programs should only do what they're asked to do.... Am I glad. >>> then resize the fs within the partition >> >> HOW can I resize the fs? Are there tables? Where are the parameters stored? > >Depending on the fs type: >resize2fs (for ext2/3) >resize_reiserfs (for reiser 3) >and xfs and jfs will probably have their own tools for that. Ah, special programs. Thanks. >See the man pages how to use these programs (essentially they extend the >fs to the size of the partition, unless you specify a maximum size). > >> Does Linux ext2 or ext3 use the old method or is there a distribution over the >> whole area, just like with Win2k+ ? The problem is that reducing partition size >> would mean to REALLY squeeze the large spreading area into a smaller one, so >> cutting off at an "upper end" cylinder alone could not work. > >resize2fs "with a maximum size" will make sure all "in use" blocks are >within that size, so the "upper end" of the partition can then be freed. So it will determine the maximal neccessary cylinder? Sounds good. Thank you, Aribert Deckers -- Interview mit dem Autor der "Reimbibel" http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=14183 |