OT: redhat

[Bill Vermillion]

On Mon, Nov 08 01:00 , while denying his reply is spam, Fairlight 
prattled on endlessly saying: 

> Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Bill Vermillion been jivin' 'bout like:

....

> > that make it hard.  And that's why things like Partition Magic
> > were created - because you are limited in restructuring by
> > the OS itself.

> Yeah, but that's not going to help you when someone else did an
> install, and they put a 25gig Windows partition that not only
> isn't populated but isn't even NEEDED -smack- in the middle
> of all the linux partitions. Sure, you can grow ReiserFS, but
> you can't (to my knowledge, and do correct me if I'm wrong)
> merge two non-contiguous segments of a disk into one coherent
> partition. You can reclaim the space, but not in the most
> meaningful way.

Sure you can add pieces and expand a filesystem anytime you want
>if< you have the right OS. :-) :-) :-) AIX is the only one that
I know of that does that.  :-(

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com