Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement

[Dale]

Michael Mol wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2011 11:21 PM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Mick wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 20:42:43 Dale wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not
> being
> >>>>> used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it with
> >>>>> passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it again and
> >>>>> the process will repeat.
> >>>>
> >>>> But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks
> every
> >>>> week?
> >>>>
> >>>> This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend
> a good
> >>>> eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting
> it. In
> >>>> the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will work
> exactly
> >>>> how it does now.
> >>>>
> >>>> If Grub were the only package to do this -- fine, whatever. But next
> >>>> week it will be something else. I don't know what my point is, but it
> >>>> feels good to bitch about it.
> >>>
> >>> This is how I feel about the initramfs thingy and /usr and /var.  What
> >>> is next?  I am pretty sure it will be something tho.
> >>
> >> I share your pain.  :-(
> >>
> >> I'm not sure if this a sign of me getting (even) older, or Linux
> maturing and
> >> in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more
> and more
> >> for mainstream ignoramuses.  :p
> >>
> >
> > I was thinking more like windoze really.  If windoze starts having
> mount points like Linux, things could start changing.  ^_^   Think
> about it, windoze currently has to have its stuff on the C drive and
> Linux can be spread out over many drives and you can mount things
> wherever you want.  Linux is going the way of windoze then windoze
> would be going the way of Linux.  Weird huh?
>
> You've been able to do this since at least WinXP. I don't know if that
> functionality extends through Win2k and earlier.
>
> On one hand, you can configure the locations of things like
> %PROGRAMFILES% and %SYSTEMROOT%. On the other hand, you can mount a
> volume wherever you like.
>
> I used this to use the same .libpurple directory on a machine
> dual-booted between WinXP 32-bit and WinVista 64-bit. A data volume
> was mounted at D:\Data, and I had NTFS junctions pointing my
> .libpurple on both boots at a directory on that volume.
>

Hmmmm, this is interesting.  My brother has filled up his hard drive and 
I been planning on reinstalling to a larger drive.  Maybe I need to 
check into this more.  He uses XP and I really hate to install windoze.  
Since he had to spend $8,000.00 on a new mower, his new rig went to 
second place in the budget.  This could be the place for the next couple 
years.  Uhh, he mows grass for a living.  Anyway, putting Documents on 
its own drive would save me some grief.

So, windoze is catching up to Linux since Linux is regressing.  Man, 
this is weird.

Dale

:-)  :-)