[jldugger]

In such cases where the OP and the community agrees, reformatting the question would avoid making a useless landing page.

Or the best answer follows the "here's how to do what you asked, HOWEVER: <detailed description of actual problem and solutions>"

[alien_at_work]

>In such cases where the OP and the community agrees, reformatting the question would avoid making a useless landing page.

And if the question is 10 years old the day I need to reformat my linux hard drive? The OP might not even still be alive. Certainly there will be resistance to rezzing a 10 year old thread to make the question more general.