From: J G Miller on
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
> Mr Bill? Surely you mean Mr Steve Balmer?

i can't tell the difference between the business practices of the two,
can you?

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From: David Bolt on
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

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From: Happy Oyster on
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.
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From: Happy Oyster on
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
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