Re: Gmail Drive

Josiah Jenkins wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 00:14:18 +0000 (UTC), I read these words from "Ian
Morrison" <iomorrison@xxxxxxxxxxx> :


"Josiah Jenkins" <josiah-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As to whether it was K Disk Lang or K Drive Lang ?

This thread could end up as lang as the eponymous toun!

<I have "drives" which extend as far as "I:", but that's because those
beyond "E:" are slots for a "Removable Disk", in "Windows" parlance. In
fact the "disks" in question are decidedly rectangular, and solid, such
as the Compact Flash ones which I use. It is hardly surprising that
ill-educated younger people, such as Oor Tam, get confused over this
sort of thing, when companies such as M*cr*sh*ft perpetuate it so.>


At one point I became a "partition junkie".

Used to rename my CD drives as "Y" and "Z".

1st HD (5Gb partitions) could be C, E, F, G, H, I, J, K
2nd HD (5Gb partitions) could be D, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R

That left S, T, U, V, W, X for USB thingies !

Nowadays I can't be *rsed !

-- jjj



*nix has /dev/hd(a-z(1-???)) (example: /dev/hdc1 is the first partition on the third physical drive (generally the first hard drive)) for IDE or /dev/sd(a-z(1-???)) for SCSI, SATA or USB.

The important part is to load your core OS on its own partition(s) and put addons and data on other partition(s) in case you f*** your OS by f****** around with it too f****** much (or catch a nasty virus for you winders users).
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