On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage > seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more > forthcoming.
It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. > There are a couple of reasons I appreciate copying on a file-by-file > basis - I don't know if PING would allow me the same flexibility. Sure it won't. You provide plenty of examples... While reading them I remembered dar & kdar but it seems the latter is no more actively mantained. And anyway not a solution for windows users if you want to let them to take a bit of care of themselves. An option is to shrink the old disk to a secondary partition and leave it on the same disk, but again having another partition isn't the best for end users: it's easier to claim back space without specializer tools if everything's is just a folder away. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r3, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 28 22:23:31 CET 2008 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.90 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list