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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Hard Disk drive space gone missing... Post 302073279 by amro1 on Thursday 11th of May 2006 12:06:32 PM
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Nope, I didn't have in mind that it is not doable, it is of cause but the computing if far fore than typing some commands as far as I'm concerned. As you have to split drive it results in meager volumes capacity. As most of office work naturally will be done in Windows and with little time you realize that drive wasn't divided wisely enough. Then, windows doesn't know to read ext3 volumes and if you set some rogue driver and drop/edit some files it then looses attributes in Linux and so on. I can mention LOOooooOooNgggg list of mishaps. If a task is just to try Linux to learn some commands it may be the solution, but if you use the computer as a everyday tool it becomes mind boggling. As you wok in Windows and then you recalled that there's files you need to address had been stored in Linux, and zipped with encryption, or simply drives doesn't work for you, you will be forced to reboot again, and if you run some serious Excel's table for example and in a middle of something ... That what I mean when I say it depends on definition “lot a trouble is”. OS X is free of all this hassle; it also offers ALL of the commercial tools one need to perform a job.
As long as you will have Windows on it you will not be really using Linux, as it is lacking of tools to have job done for everyday life. I mean you can do everything if you are independent completely, but as far as I have to comply with corporative standards, there's no real possibility to employ it is a way it has to be done. The compatibility of peer applications is marginal: just a little bit complex and it renders your job incorrectly. So that it was a reason (among many other) to abandon PC platform. With OS X you have luxury of all commercially available high quality software and it rides over very polished UNIX. It is solid.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

pdebuild-user-mode-linux

pdebuild-user-mode-linux(1)					     pbuilder					       pdebuild-user-mode-linux(1)

NAME

       pdebuild-user-mode-linux - pbuilder-user-mode-linux way of doing debuild

SYNOPSIS

       pdebuild-user-mode-linux [pdebuild-user-mode-linux options] -- [pbuilder-user-mode-linux options]

DESCRIPTION

       A  convenience  program	for  pbuilder-user-mode-linux which invokes pbuilder after obtaining appropriate root privilege in a Debian source
       directory.  One must be inside the source tree containing the debian directory, in order to make it work.

PDEBUILD OPTIONS

       --buildsourceroot [fakeroot]
	      The command used to gain root privilege for invoking dpkg-buildpackage

       --auto-debsign

	      Invoke debsign at the end of pdebuild process.

       --debsign-k [key-id]

	      Pass -k option to debsign to specify which keyid to sign.

       --buildresult [Directory for build results]

	      The place which build result is stored.

       --configfile [Extra config file to use]

	      The configuration file is used, but not passed on to pbuilder-user-mode-linux.

       --debbuildopts [options to pass to dpkg-buildpackage]

	      The space-delimited list of options are passed to dpkg-buildpackage.  This option appends to pbuilder option --debbuildopts and  may
	      also be used to reset the list of options by passing the empty string.

       --use-pdebuild-internal
	      Uses a different implementation of pdebuild, which calls clean and build inside the chroot, using bind-mounts.

	      pdebuild-internal tries to run debian/rules clean inside the chroot.  To achieve the goal, the working directory is passed on inside
	      the chroot, in the form of bind-mounting and debuild is run.

	      This option will not protect the working directory and its parent directories from the build scripts.

       -- [pbuilder options]

	      After the -- symbol, an arbitrary number of pbuilder options can be specified.  See  pbuilder-user-mode-linux.1  for  full  list	of
	      options.

	      There is an exception that --buildresult needs to be specified as pdebuild option before the -- to be effective.

FILES

       /etc/pbuilderrc
	      The configuration file for pbuilder-user-mode-linux, used in pdebuild-user-mode-linux.

       /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
	      The default configuration file for pbuilder-user-mode-linux, used in pdebuild-user-mode-linux.

       ${HOME}/.pbuilderrc
	      Configuration file for pbuilder-user-mode-linux, used in pdebuild-user-mode-linux, overrides what is written in /etc/pbuilderrc

AUTHOR

       Initial coding, and main maintenance is done by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>.

       The homepage is available at http://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder-user-mode-linux(1), pbuilderrc(5), pbuilder-uml.conf(5)

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