Re: fstab broken; read-only hd

From: Sybren Stuvel (sybrenUSE_at_YOURthirdtower.imagination.com)
Date: 09/16/03 

Date: 16 Sep 2003 16:33:27 GMT

Kevin Klein enlightened us with:
> Thank you very much. Everything is cool now. It was my fault (hihi) . I
> didnt mount / I only tried to mount /usr

Good to see everything worked out.

One other small thing: next time, please remove all but some quoted
text, and reply _below_ it, just as I've done now. If you reply above
the quoted text, this'll happen (and trust me, I've seen it happen):

>> Reply 3
>>> Reply 2
>>>>> Original post
>>>> Reply 1
> Reply 4

As you can see, it makes a mess of a thread. Bottom-posting and good
snipping makes a thread readable. Because of the asynchronous,
distributed nature of Usenet, the chronological order of the thread
might not be the same as the order the posts are delivered. Therefore
it's vital that the message itself is in chronological order. An
argument in favour of top-posting is that the reader doesn't have to
scroll all the way down to read the reply. Removing unneeded quoted
text voids that argument, since the text will begin a few lines from
the top.

If you think these arguments aren't enough, try one of the following
sites:

http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
http://allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting

...and the ultimate argument for not top posting:

Your question will get answered rather than your thread turning into
yet another "please don't top post" thread. (Ivan Marsh)

Sybren 

-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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