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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:52:34 -0700
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Daniel,

Who is this company? I would like to avoid them in the future.

--Peter

Daniel Gerzo wrote:

>Bon jour Peter,
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>Sunday, September 11, 2005, 1:51:09 AM, you wrote:
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>>Why don't you just get them to reinstall the machine? A few dedicated
>>server providers have done that to me (Having the whole / and the 4GB
>>swap partion), and I told them to reinstall the machine (even when they
>>tried to charge me for it, I told them no go.) because they had made a
>>mistake themselves with the installation.
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>They told me they will charge $29 for it :/
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>>You can explain to them that having one large / on a FreeBSD machine
>>will cause performance to be very low because of lack of soft updates.
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>>--Peter
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