On Saturday 24 March 2018 05:30:49 deloptes wrote: > I was thinking a while if I should answer this - I mean, start looking for > answer yourself as I don't feel to be a babysitter or put questions forward > if you search for an answer for lets say 30 minutes and can not find any > usable. > Of course everybody is free to ask or answer ... but I think you are asking > too much without listening and this is the motivation to write this, > because I told you to remove all that was not custom installed from /opt, > but you talk too much and listen too little. This is pure chaos. > Ask a definite question, complete the task and close the topic, after this > open new topic. > > From the length of the discussion I can conclude that the question was > vague and it went off topic too much. > Just close this question with "my vanishing root partition" and open > another on how to proceed with /opt on new install > > regards > Actually, I've been done with "my vanishing root partition" for several days now. Other people have answered, and so I continue the thread, and ought to have stopped when it went off-topic. You might not have noticed, but I've been more or less offline for most of the past week, while rebuilding my system. I made a few replies when I briefly came back online. I always search online first for answers to my tech questions, usually for weeks or even months, for how to resolve problems, and otherwise I have lots of books on Linux. Only after I have failed to find answers do I ask here on the mailing list. My problem is not lack of searching, but rather that I don't know quite how to ask the questions, because I am not really a geek. I have only made myself into a kind of semi-demi-geek out of necessity, because I cannot do otherwise. About July or August of 2017 I installed Debian and Trinity, and I've participated actively in the mailing list only since about November 2017, once I had got TDE up and running fairly smoothly. Now I am just trying to iron out the kinks. I always ran KDE3, and haven't found a DE to compare with it, but changing to Debian and Trinity takes a little more effort than running a ready-made system. And by the way, I think the developers are doing a great job, and I've watched Trinity improve over the years; I only wish it were easier to find information. Then you wouldn't be bothered by my questions, as I would rather read than to have exchanges like this. In hopes that I might learn something, if I picked the brains of people who know more than I, I put my questions to the group. Now, if you could kindly tell me how properly to ask questions, I would be most obliged. I don't know how else to learn but to ask, and I only ask when I haven't been able to find the answers on my own. "Those who know do not speak, and those who speak do not know." Regarding listening: I tried all the applicable suggestions that other put forward, in trying to sort out this problem. However, I will save my specific questions for a separate post under a different heading. You are right, though, about it veering off-topic. Sorry about that, and I ought to have either put the matter to rest or made a different heading; but again, I was in the middle of rebuilding my system, you see. I am just trying to learn, and the only way I know how to ask is just to ask. Bill > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting