Missing hard drive space

[Eberhard Roloff]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Eberhard Roloff" <tuxebi at gmx.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 00:00
> 
> 
>> jdow wrote:
>>
>>
>>> And I certainly appreciate your trying to help him. I'm trying to help
>>> him, too. Together we can probably beat his problem.
>>>
>> My respect to the two of you. I appreciate your brave attitude and your 
>> unbeatable optimism!
>>
>> I counted way more than 100! Mails scatterred around various threads on 
>> this list, just relating to this single problem. It is the problem  of 
>> one person, unwilling to do homework, but nevertheless wanting to use 5 
>> different harddisks, nearly all of them derived from windows, on his 
>> linux machine.
>>
>> This is perfectly doable in very near to no time, when you have a look 
>> at man pages, know to use google and ask the occassional question on 
>> your favourite mailinglist.
>>
>> My conclusion is that there are indeeed some people in this world that 
>> might better continue to work with Windows.
>> Imho they will not see the light....
> 
> Eberhard, I always suggest to people who ask me about operating systems
> choices that they pick the one with the applications they are most
> comfortable using be it Apple, Windows, Linux, BSD, BeOS, whatever.
> 
> This fellow seemed to be intent on getting out of the Windows spiral of
> despair. I suspect he may be discovering that any OS can be a spiral of
> despair if you don't care to learn some of its basics.
> 
> I don't know if he asked earlier than this about the feasibility of
> a configuration such as he is trying to setup. Nor do I know if he
> met a polite and informative response rather than a rant. If you
> gentlepersons would give folks like him good information, even if
> the suggestion you have to give rubs you raw, you'd earn a rather
> remarkable reputation that would draw people in.
> 
> (And, yes, when I am trying to do something like he is crying I keep
> consulting man pages so that I do get it right. I didn't have time to
> do that, hence my memory lapse.)
> 
> Hopefully he did get it usable, save his data, and discovered he can
> learn and do it himself. If I gave him that last gift I'm happy.
> I may hate learning. But I really love having learned. I like to share
> that kick with others. It's addictive; but, it's free, too. And you can
> even get paid for it.
> 
> {^_-}
> 
J, thanks for your encouragement. Keep on your great work and your 
inspiring spirit.

Eberhard