Date: 28 Jan 2002 15:01:36 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad disk partitioning policies (was: "Re: FreeBSD Intaller (was "Re: ... RedHat ...")") Message-ID: <9mit9mm65r.t9m@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <3C54A24B.B0B607F@mindspring.com> References: <20020123124025.A60889@HAL9000.wox.org> <3C4F5BEE.294FDCF5@mindspring.com> <20020123223104.SM01952@there> <p0510122eb875d9456cf4@[10.0.1.3]> <15440.35155.637495.417404@guru.mired.org> <p0510123fb876493753e0@[10.0.1.3]> <15440.53202.747536.126815@guru.mired.org> <p05101242b876db6cd5d7@[10.0.1.3]> <15441.17382.77737.291074@guru.mired.org> <p05101245b8771d04e19b@[10.0.1.3]> <20020125212742.C75216@over-yonder.net> <p05101203b8788a930767@[10.0.1.14]> <gc1ygc7sfi.ygc@localhost.localdomain> <3C534C4A.35673769@mindspring.com> <0s3d0s5dos.d0s@localhost.localdomain> <3C53ED01.61407A02@mindspring.com> <ffbsffnwfp.sff@localhost.localdomain> <3C54A24B.B0B607F@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes: > is linear or exponential (exponential), and even saying that > raises more questions from people who want to have knowledge > given to them, instead of having to learn it (such people ... > Realize that this is all irrelevent, and what we are really > talking about is not whether or not the disk space is able > to be used, but rather "eye candy" for the system owener so > that they can see a larger "available disk space" number. ... > I think the confusion comes because anyone who naievely looks > at the man pages, without reading them in depth, can come to > the conclusion that the "free reserve" might be there for root > use to recover a nearly completely full system, and so it's an > administrative, rather than an algorithmic requirement. ... > I believe that no matter *how well* you document things, you > will still have problems with tourists who don't take time > to read what you have written, in depth, to the point of > understanding it. All good points, but it's debatable how well they apply to any particular situation. SA's (esp. amateurs) shouldn't be expected to be all-knowing or even all-reading. Documentation is best done at many levels (I can easily think of 5). A terse man page and technical treatise gives too small a number of levels. Terry, thanks for your gentlemanly response to my rude remarks and for otherwise putting up with me. I'll have trouble deciding whether to discuss other issues when I'll fear that you'll waste time on it whether you find it to be obligatory bother or enjoyable banter. (But I try to pretend that ML/NG msgs are written to unknown people and just worry about what's being discussed, with occasional exceptions like this.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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