use any editor of your choosing to modify crontab…  at your command prompt (assuming you are root), type:
EDITOR=nano
export EDITOR
now, when you crontab -e that editor (in this case, nano) will be used instead of vi. what a relief!

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i’ve got a drive geometry for dual-boot xp and debian that (i thought) prevented me from being able to shrink a too-generous linux root partition in favor of giving more space to my shared fat32 ‘data’ partition… like so:
/dev/hda2 ; ext2 ; 16mb –> /boot
/dev/hda1 ; ntfs ; 12gb –> [xp]
/dev/hda3 ; swap ; 2gb […]

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