On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:57, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think this exemplifies the problem with FOSS software except for > maybe indicating that sometimes the information is there for all to see > but some people don't actually look and rely upon misinformed web pages, > people, etc. I used to be like you, always quick to lecture end users with some technical factoid. Then I got older, and with age one gets less patience (or less inclined to waste time trying to work around technical limits in hardware or software, as one has "been there" many times in the past). So I eventually realized it´s not really the end-user´s job to know about the cylinder limits of DOS-style partition tables beforehand. And that if they fire fdisk on a bigger than 2TB hard drive, a warning message "hey, look, this tool has a limit on what it can do on the big hard drive just detected" would go a long way to solve frustration and waste of time, as experienced by the OP. Just saying. FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
