MISSING HARD DRIVE SPACE

[jdow]

From: "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 2009/April/19 14:45


> jdow wrote:
>> From: "Thorny" <thorntreehome at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, 2009/April/18 07:44
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:18:45 +0100, MG posted:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I seem to have lost 500 gigs of space I think 300 is from a hard drive
>>>> that needs to be formatted how much is Ubuntu with all the sound extras
>>>> (synths etc) likely to take up?????
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This person needs to be helped but it's hard to understand his/her 
>>>> problem. What is said is very contradictory. This is it in clear?
>>>>
>    1. Lost 500 GB of space
>    2. 300 GB might be on a hard drive that is not formated.
>    3. How big is Ubuntu? This makes no sense. A new Jaunty Beta install
> was 2.1 GB in a 5 GB partition.
>
>    4. There might be more than 1 hard drives.
>    5. This person was asked to do the right things to understand what
> was there. None of the suggestions were reported on.
>
> Summary: This person may not be smart enough to solve this problem.
>
> Karl

All that you quoted is true, Karl. The response from the "message format
10 year old anal retentives" was not worth their cost to transport as
bits across the Internet.

The first message response he received was abusive. It continued to be
uninformative and abusive for several messages. At Thorny's message I'd
had enough and lit into Thorny. He and his cronies can grow up. Note
that when people started to get helpful I did not comment. But, I figure
by then the original poster had had enough and bailed out of Ubuntu
altogether.

BSD folks have a "reputation" for being curt and unfriendly. I always
found them courteous, friendly, and helpful WAY beyond the Fedora people.
And now I find after some months of random monitoring Ubuntu that you
folks here seem to have forgotten courtesy completely. You do not win
over people from other OSs or distros by reading them the riot act,
incorrectly at that, when they post a query. If you cannot help do not
answer. If you can help deliver the help and if you feel so strongly
about bottom posting gently ask. And make sure your OTHER criticisms
accurate. Politeness really helps. But some people seem to only respond
to a dead fish across the face. So I delivered that dead fish.

(Warning - I cured SOME people on the RedHat/Fedora lists by side posting
to be obnoxious. {^_-})

{^_^}