Re: Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/17/05

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    To: Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:53:33 -0500

    On Monday 17 January 2005 16:25, Matthew Miller wrote:
    >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 03:02:55PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
    >> And I have yet to use it, and have it work just fine. For an
    >> example, the last time I tried it, it made a 500MB /usr dir on an
    >> 80GB disk, and moved the 100 MB /dev/hda1 "/boot" partition to
    >> hda5, and gave it 10GB.
    >
    >Why are you telling it to do that?

    Thats exactly my point, when I last looked at the display it was setup
    the way I wanted it, but when it came time to do the install, it
    bombed because the usr was full in about 20 packages. Thats when I
    found, for the second time that it has a mind of its own. I found a
    cd that had fdisk on it and redid it from scratch. All my data, 5
    years worth of email archives etc was gone at that point and I sure
    as hell wasn't going to trust it ever again. That BTW was when I was
    installing FC3RC3 on a box that also had a Brain Dead Install of emc
    on it, on seperate partitions. It ate that too. How, by my leaveing
    hdb in the menu's so it would use the same swap partition, it
    formatted the whole damned thing. Yes, that was a replaceable
    install, but why the hell should I have to screw with something thats
    as drain bamaged as Disk Druid?

    Until it does EXACTLY what the user wants it to, to any number of
    disks available on a system, (thats its first achilles heel, it can
    only deal with one hard drive, not enough smarts to handle 2 or more)
    take it away, I don't ever want to see it again. Its dead Jim, I
    tell you its dead, now please bury it somewhere deep enough it can't
    smell up the place. 

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