From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:44:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jk4hr7$69e$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F64E892.2080207@coolmail.se>
On 03/17/2012 12:40 PM, pk wrote:
> On 2012-03-17 19:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> you know, with that 'put everything into /usr' crap going on, I don't see any
>> reason to have a seperate /usr at all. /root is completely empty. So what? Put
>> everything on one partition and go on.
>
> Yes, let's do away with partitions altogether, who needs them?
When I was in school the (Winchester) disk drives were the size of
a hotel mini-bar and the, um, "diskettes" the size of a stack of
four or five large pizza boxes which had to be carried with both
hands.
I never asked how much these toys cost, but I'm guessing it would
be roughly a year's salary for most people. Now multiply that by
the number of partitions you need to mount simultaneously.
That was the reason for separate / and /usr back then -- the school
didn't want to buy multiple Winchesters when they could get the
sysadmin to swap multiple "diskettes" during bootup, and let the
student health service cover the cost of his hernia repair :p
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-18 11:46 UTC|newest]
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2012-03-17 4:11 [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17 4:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17 4:37 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17 4:53 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17 5:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-17 6:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-17 11:53 ` [gentoo-user] systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ] Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-18 0:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-18 1:45 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 2:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-18 2:41 ` Joshua Murphy
2012-03-18 2:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18 2:20 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18 2:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 3:02 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 3:27 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 8:02 ` Graham Murray
2012-03-18 8:49 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 11:23 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-18 19:25 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 19:48 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 19:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 19:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-19 13:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 13:57 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 13:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 13:56 ` Dale
2012-03-18 22:23 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-18 22:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19 22:58 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-19 23:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-21 4:40 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-21 14:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-21 16:02 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-21 22:55 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-22 1:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-22 21:13 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-22 22:07 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-23 1:27 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-29 6:52 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-19 13:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-18 2:48 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 2:57 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-18 4:17 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 7:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-19 13:20 ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-19 13:49 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-19 13:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 14:33 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-19 23:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17 8:00 ` [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Andrea Conti
2012-03-17 12:03 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-19 13:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 13:27 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-19 23:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19 23:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-19 23:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-20 1:13 ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-20 8:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17 11:59 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-17 12:05 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-17 12:50 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-17 12:54 ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-17 14:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-03-18 9:52 ` Dale
2012-03-18 18:01 ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-18 20:39 ` Dale
2012-03-18 22:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-19 0:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-19 2:03 ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-19 13:40 ` Eliezer Croitoru
2012-03-19 13:56 ` Alex Schuster
2012-03-29 9:35 ` [gentoo-user] chicken/eff issue with suspend-to-disk/hibernate problem [Was: The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way!] J. Roeleveld
2012-03-29 10:40 ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-29 13:51 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-29 14:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 23:05 ` wdk@moriah
2012-03-18 17:30 ` [gentoo-user] The End Is Near ... or, get the vaseline, they're on the way! Tanstaafl
2012-03-17 14:08 ` Jarry
2012-03-19 13:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-17 15:10 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 17:36 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-17 17:58 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 18:38 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-17 19:40 ` pk
2012-03-17 20:09 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-17 20:28 ` pk
2012-03-18 9:51 ` Dale
2012-03-18 13:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 13:52 ` Dale
2012-03-19 13:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-18 11:44 ` walt [this message]
2012-03-17 20:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-18 0:43 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-18 2:18 ` William Kenworthy
2012-03-18 3:57 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 6:30 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 7:26 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 7:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-18 12:01 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 12:47 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-18 13:23 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-18 14:08 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-03-18 13:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-18 17:38 ` Tanstaafl
2012-03-29 9:48 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-03-18 13:27 ` Mark Knecht
2012-03-17 23:02 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2012-03-18 8:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2012-03-19 9:48 ` Helmut Jarausch
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