>If you type "df directoryname", df will show you what 
>partition that directory is on.

>Bob Miller

Hey, this df command is really great! (I like df -h.)
I wish I had known about it a few days ago when I first
started this partition copying/moving project. It would
have saved me much grief and confusion.

Working with these Linux/Unix partitions the last few 
days, I have come to the conclusion that / partition is
for the system, the /usr partition is for programs, and
the /home partition is for data and user settings. 
These three groupings (system, programs, data) are how 
I have been logically dividing up my Windows partitions.

Another cool thing I did was to get all my hard drives 
to work with cable select, and since they are all in 
"Mobile Rack" removable drive bays, I can plug any 
drive into any one of my computers and transfer data
between them. This leads into the next cool thing:

I tried booting of a Mandrake system setup on one 
machine by putting that drive in another machine. And 
it worked! A Red Hat device add-remove program came up
and asked me if I wanted to uninstall or keep each
hardware device from the old system and then added the
appropriate driver for the new system. I was amazed.
Unfortunately, I didn't write down the name of that
"device manager" program so now I can't figure out how
to go back into it and tweak things around. Oh well,
I'm sure I'll figure it out sometime. (I guess I could
put the drive back in the other computer in order to 
make that Red Hat device add-remove program run again.)

Some things are actually starting to work better than 
Windows, although most things are still broken and I
need to go back to windows to get any real work done.
I'm getting very good at Glines though. <grin> Is 456
considered a good score? I'm usually in the 300's but
once in a while I manage to break through into the 
mid 400's.

Cheers,
Dexter

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