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On 16 April 2007, Thomas Tuttle wrote: |
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> On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: |
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> > On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: |
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> > > On 4/13/07, anhnmncb@×××××.com <anhnmncb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > > hello, |
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> > > > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my |
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> > > > hard-disk. |
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> > Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot. |
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> > No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses hung out |
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> > on a stick to be picked clean by crows. |
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> I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are |
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> using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen |
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> drive, for the filesystem containing Portage. It is true, as you said, |
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> that syncing often will cause no harm to a "normal" hard disk. |
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Same as *any* writing activity. So no, this doesn't count as "emerge --sync |
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huts the harddisk". ;-) |
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> > Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind of |
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> > twaddle. |
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> ...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they |
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> misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this. |
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Alan was quite right. As I said in and earlier response: Emerge --sync hurts |
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your harddrive as much as driving your car hurts your tyres. |
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Uwe |
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The Informal Linux Group Namibia: |
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http://www.linux.org.na |
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SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: |
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http://www.SysEx.com.na |
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