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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:14:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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> On 30/08/2017 13:25, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote |
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> >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Another example is LVM. You or I might really need it (debatable now we |
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> >>> have ZFS) but the average user has no concept of what it might be, or |
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> >>> care. So why do Ubuntu installers shove it in your face as something |
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> >>> really cool that you should really really use? Because the author of the |
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> >>> installer thinks it's really cool, that's why. |
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> >>> |
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> >> |
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> >> Maybe. |
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> >> |
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> >> Or maybe because when that computer's hard drive starts getting full |
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> >> and you add a new hard drive, if you're using lvm with a few commands |
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> >> you can make your /home expand across both drives, while with straight |
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> >> partitions that is a lot more work. |
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> > |
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> > 1) I don't recall having added a hard drive for many years. |
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> > |
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> > 2) How difficult is it to symlink directories? |
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> Oh that part is easy. One command, ln, with the option -s. |
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> Now go and get your grandma to do it, and come tell us what happened. |
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Now go and get your grandma to find and buy the right type of internal |
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drive for her computer (i.e. with the right type of connector), install |
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it into the drive bay, and adjust /etc/fstab accordingly, and come tell |
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us what happened. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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