Re: Hard Disk

2005-07-14 Thread Philippe Troin
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ke, 2005-07-13 kello 20:53 -0700, Philippe Troin kirjoitti: cat /dev/zero /bigfile rm /bigfile If you want to have maximum compression / zero filling, you should do that as root in your shutdown script, for all your partitions just before

Re: The Ineffectual DPL?

2004-04-07 Thread Philippe Troin
[Cc'ed only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have not voted in this DPL election. I didn't vote in last year's. I think I only voted in the first one, but even then, I'm not sure. I always vote, probably for the same reasons I vote in my country's elections

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Philippe Troin
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it needs a rewrite, and one that should go through a better review process than the current one did. An document that determines the rulkes and penalties that the developer community has to live by should noit be decided by a small

Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-19 Thread Philippe Troin
[This is my last post on -devel on this topic. More discussion encouraged in debian-project.] Debian is about creating a Unix/linux/hurd distribution, not about packaging everything under the sun in the .deb format. I think we need a policy on pure data packages. Pure data packages are a