Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 12:29:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Message-ID: <20020202122927.A17167@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200202020043.g120hq750401@freefall.freebsd.org>; from mwlucas@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:43:52PM -0800 References: <200202020043.g120hq750401@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:43:52PM -0800, Michael Lucas wrote: > mwlucas 2002/02/01 16:43:52 PST > > Modified files: > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml > Log: > Axe the question on cramming 1TB files onto a floppy disk. > > 1) This is not asked frequently. This is not asked rarely. This has > probably only been asked once, in some leap year during the > thirteenth full moon. > > 2) "You need a dd that handles large files"; this is spectacularly > unhelpful, as it says nothing about where to get such a dd, what's > wrong with the existing dd, etc. > > 3) This information might be useful somewhere in the Handbook, if rewritten > and generalized to explain why files can be larger than the disks > that they live on: since this question is simply met with derision > by many members of the -doc team, however, not to mention the > FreeBSD community in general, we'll just deorbit it. > > 4) If we had a "Stupid FreeBSD Tricks" book, this would belong there. Hm, it would fit nicely adjacent to the BoFH handbook I suppose. -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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