Dexter,
Gee... if you like df, check out du (disk usage), you will probably like it
too... Im not sure what device add-in program your talking about, possibly
kudzu, its a pnp device install utility, and it can be run at boot time (or
not), or at the command line.
Jamie
On Saturday 10 November 2001 11:33, you wrote:
> >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
