Why Linux Is Better (was Re: OT: Solaris question)

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The last time I checked, Windows does allow you to change your drive 
letters to whatever you want.  From the first letter available to Z.  
WinNT, 2000, and XP, it's in the MMC.

Leo J Mauler wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:10:40 -0600 (CST) Duane Attaway
><dattaway at dattaway.org> writes:
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>>Do you have a disk, partition, or directory free that is large 
>>enough?  You can make a symbolic link of /opt somehwere 
>>in the directory structure of a larger partition.  Or you can 
>>mount opt into its own partition with the mount command, 
>>even using a whole disk.  When you need space, call up 
>>your friends ln -s and mount.  They will help you move 
>>your furniture around without you breaking a sweat.
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>Someone from M$ wanted to know what made Linux great.
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>Something which M$ will never do because it would require rewriting most
>of their filesystem, but which makes Linux great (especially relative to
>M$ Windows) is the lack of drive letters, coupled with ln -s.
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>My wife wants a hard drive upgrade.  I have a spare 20GB drive to put in
>there, but she has so many things which are installed on D: that
>installing it will be a royal pain.  This is because the first Windows
>partition on the second hard drive is *always* given drive letter D:.  No
>exceptions!  
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