James Wilkinson wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:I'm a little at a loss to explain this thread's existence. # du -hs /etc 61M /etc # exit logout Ok, it makes sense to move /home or /tmp to another disc, but who cares about /etc? It's less than 100M on my machine.Sorry, Mike, but that's enough of an excuse for me to go off at a tangent. It's not aimed at you...
Nothing personal taken, I'm sure :-)
I'm a little at a loss to explain this thread's existence."Because I find it intellectually interesting."
I did mention that as a possibility :-)
This is Linux. It's based on Unix, a system designed to give the user huge amounts of flexibility over the way it works. And it's re-implemented by hackers who wanted to make their computers do what they want them to do. Now there are some things that are difficult: fixing some bugs, getting specifications to certain bits of hardware, stopping laws that take away freedoms, making software that does Just What The User Wants, or making a 486 do two billion instructions per second. But within that, Linux should be a system that a technically-minded person can understand, fix, and make it do what *they* want. So if there are things you *can't* do, that's irritating. And a challenge.
Ok, fine. But then, why not design a different bootstrap and write your own BIOS as well? Then you wouldn't be bound by the way the MBR and partition table work. :-) [snip]
convenience. But I am free to do things my way whenever I want.
Aren't we all!
Mike
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