Linux-Misc Digest #419, Volume #24 Wed, 10 May 00 00:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT (Jim Morrissey)
Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT (Rick Hoffman)
Where is stddef.h? (U.V. Ravindra)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Keith)
Haunted Hard Drive (John Scudder)
new / partition (Bob Cunius)
Re: Star office on Red Hat 6.1 ("Jason Baker")
Re: Linux behaving like Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Samba writing problem! (Mark)
Re: Where is the kernel source? (Paul Kimoto)
How do I use iBCS? (Ken Williams)
where does filesize get set? (Farid Hamjavar)
Re: Damn samba (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Haunted Hard Drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT (root)
named fails to start on RH Linux (Ramon F Herrera)
Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT (Mike Kenzie)
named fails to start on RH Linux (Ramon F Herrera)
Can anyone answer these questions? (Rick Hoffman)
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From: Jim Morrissey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:10:48 GMT
I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
-Jim
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:20:28 -0400
Jim Morrissey wrote:
> I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
> Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
> facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
> URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
>
> -Jim
I am not one to really comment on this because I know little about one and
none of the other. But this I do know, Linux would present a lower initial
cost because ITS FREE!! Not to mention open source which by all counts
should make it more configurable.
In any case this should make for a real interesting thread.
hoffy
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From: U.V. Ravindra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Where is stddef.h?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:27:02 GMT
Doesn't Linux come with a <stddef.h>?
I am trying to port some code from Solaris to Linux (Alpha,
if that matters), and one of my files tries to include
<stddef.h>, which I can't find on the system.
Does a standard distribution of Linux (whatever that may
mean) include <stddef.h> or not?
Thanks,
Ravindra.
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From: Keith <keith@invalid>
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 19:43:07 -0700
Is it possible that SUSE Linux will be receiving a huge order in the near
future?!
On Tue, 9 May 2000 19:05:40 -0400, German_Scn_News
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Microsoft
>Now a "security risk" in Berlin
>
>Experts consider replacing all their software
>
>Berlin, Germany
>May 6, 2000
>Hamburger Morgenpost
>
>Berlin - Virus alarms in Berlin, too! E-mail "Spyders" there
>have brought down important areas of the federal government.
>An Interior Ministry task force feverishly seeks out network
>damage. And there's more: there is serious talk about getting
>rid of all of Microsoft's software.
>
>In the Federal Interior Ministry, which is responsible for data
>security, as well as in other agencies, e-mail and internet is
>down until Monday. The technicians are searching the
>computers with virus scanners for traces of devastation.
>
>Funny, not all ministries have been affected. Detlet Puhl,
>spokesman for the Federal Defense Ministry said, "No
>Loveletters arrived at our place." But the e-mail worm did not
>get through to other high security agencies, either, like
>Constitutional Security or the Federal Criminal Investigative
>Office, and, above all, the Chancellory Office. So were there
>special secret security precautions at those places?
>
>Years ago in the federal agencies, the computers were set up
>without floppy disk drives because floppy disks could be the
>source of virus infections. After an attempt was made to live in
>a paperless society, though, there were second thoughts about
>that.
>
>On inquiry from MoPo [this newspaper], administration
>spokesman Uwe Heye confirmed that consideration was being
>given to replacing the e-mail program, or even the whole
>operating system. Windows with "Outlook" or "Outlook
>Express" is in use almost everywhere. That is where the real
>weak point is, from the view of the Federal Office for Security
>in Information Technology (BSI), which reports to the Interior
>Ministry.
>
>That was found out yesterday. Otto Schily's experts are
>already busy looking into recommendations for the use of
>so-called "Open Source" software like the free Linux operating
>system. The new "Windows 2000" is also off-limits for
>agencies because it comes with a built-in defragmentation
>program called "Diskeeper" from a Scientology WISE
>company, and there are fears that the militant sect could
>secretly pass on network data by means of a Trojan Horse.
>
>UR
>
>
>
>May 6, 2000
>
>Computer freak causes billions in
>damages in the worst sabotage in
>computer history
>
>Web terrorism: "Spyder" did it!
>
>Hamburg - He calls himself "Spyder" and he lives in Manila
>[Philippines] in the Pandacan district. He is 23 years old and,
>since yesterday, is considered to be the worst commercial
>saboteur in the computer era. With a mischievous virus
>disguised as a love-letter, he has rocked the entire web world.
>Experts warn of an entirely new form of terrorism with
>incalculable consequences.
>
>It was a data bomb with a time fuse. On April 28, the
>mischievous e-mail was loaded on a server of a Philippine
>provider, but was not activated until Thursday. Hours later the
>"love letter" had crippled millions of computers all over the
>world.
>
>"It is the most malicious, damaging and fastest-acting virus in
>computer history, said Peter Tipett of the U.S. security firm
>http://www.icsa.net.
>
>In North America alone, damages are estimated to be around
>a billion (!) marks. Yet the "ILoveYou" note from Manila has
>infected pyramid scheme companies, governments,
>organizations and private computers on all continents.
>
>"And that is still not the whole story," said Friederike Rieg,
>spokeswoman from Symantec Germany (Norton Antivirus).
>Yesterday, the "love letter" continued on its rampage - albeit
>more slowly. Not only that, but within 24 hours five new
>variants showed up, including "Funny News" and "Joke." The
>advice is to delete these as soon as you see them.
>
>No virus has ever caused as much damage as Spyder's love
>letter. Experts have concluded that 90% of all businesses
>worldwide were affected. "That is really brutal," said Rieg.
>"This has never happened before and, more than that, it has
>never happened this fast before."
>
>According to initial estimates, the e-mail worm burrowed its
>way into hundreds of thousands of PCs in Germany alone.
>Like "Melissa," the virus opens up the address book and sends
>itself to all the addresses stored there. While its predecessors
>were satisfied with sending themselves to the first 50
>addresses, the "I Love Your" and its brothers multiplied with
>no limit.
>
>In the USA, the virus made its way into the networks of
>Congress, the Department of Defense and the Federal Reserve
>Bank. Not even German federal or state ministries were
>secure. The Love virus was even caught by the appointment
>calendar for Expo 2000. "No access is currently possible!"
>However, the Expo chief, Birgit Breuel, will not miss any of her
>appointments. She does not use a computer, but writes all her
>appointments down in a notebook...
>
>Furthermore: there is also a warning about the new virus
>"Zlatko.exe": it comes as a screensaver and erases the hard
>disk.
>
>---
>
>Unofficial translations of German media, For non-commercial use only
>Recent events - http://cisar.org/trnmenu.htm
>Informational publications http://members.tripod.com/German_Scn_News
> Over 1000 articles sorted by date http://cisar.org/sortdate.htm
>
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Haunted Hard Drive
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:45:42 -0500
At least once an evening while I am quiety reading mail, my hard drive
starts thrashing around for no apparent reason for several minutes or
more. Then it stops on its own and is quiet for the rest of the
evening. Why is it doing this? Do you think it is related to my swap
file?
I have SuSE 6.3, 64 M ram, 128 M swap file, and a 10 G SCSI hard drive.
Thanks,
John
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From: Bob Cunius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: new / partition
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:37:13 GMT
Hi,
My root partition is getting pretty full, so i decided that I wanted
to move it to a new partition. It was located on /dev/hdc3 and I
created a partition /dev/hda6. I then copied all files located on
/dev/hdc3 excluding the /boot directory -- that has a different mount
point (cp -Rd [source] [dest]). I then changed the line in /etc/fstab on
both partitions to mount mount /dev/hda6 instead of /dev/hc3. I also
changed lilo.conf on both disks to root = /dev/hda6. When I went to
boot /proc and /boot would not mount. I fixed the /boot problem by
adding an empty boot dir on my new partition. I did the same for the
proc mount point, but still proc will not mount. What am I missing or
doing wrong? Oh and I'm using SuSE 6.3, kernel v. 2.2.13.
Thanks,
Bob Cunius
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From: "Jason Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star office on Red Hat 6.1
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:50:29 +1000
John I have setup Star office 5 on my PC with Redhat 6.1 from
the APC magazine cd I just copied the tar file across from the CD to the tmp
directory untarred it (not no gzip used)
The result gave me list of files. I just then typed ./setup and after about
30 seconds a setup screen appearred.
This is on a p120 with 32MB of RAM using KDE so that's why it was a tad
slow.
Jason
John P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:BiRR4.35$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I got a copy of star office 5 on an APC mag CD. I try to install it on
red
> hat 6.1 and when I try to execute the set up file (using doexec under bash
> in an xterm) I get segmentation falt. Has anybody here got star office
> running on RH 6.1 and if so, how.
>
> The documentation that is supplied (text files) is for the copy on the Sun
> cd so the directory structure is different for me.
>
> Thanx
>
> John P
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux behaving like Windows
Date: 9 May 2000 19:04:36 -0700
In article <8fa58e$1mn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>>So, I am up to the point where I need to compile my modules, after entering
>>"make modules", it starts compiling for about 3 or 4 minutes and then the
>>machine hangs, no mouse no keyboard, frozen!, I wait for about 30min and
>>nothing happens.
>
>This sounds like a hardware problem. What kind of motherboard and
>processor do you have, have you checked your RAM, etc?
>
>I suspect bad RAM myself.
>
I also had a case, where my linux PC will suddenly freeze after
running for some time (even when I am not using it). It turned out
to be a bad RAM. After replacing the RAM, the hangs went away.
nasser
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Samba writing problem!
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:03:23 +0800
Hi,
I set below lines in the share part of smb.conf:
[myshare]
available = yes
path = /home
public = yes
guest only = no
create mode = 755
read only = no
writeable = yes
write ok = yes
browseable = yes
only user = no
I can browse the /home in Win98, but I can't write on it, why?
Thanks for any helps!
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Where is the kernel source?
Date: 9 May 2000 23:00:59 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Feil wrote:
> If you have your GUI running,
... and have Tk/Tcl installed ...
> use "make xconfig".
(I wouldn't install Tk/Tcl just to be able to use "xconfig".)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: How do I use iBCS?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 03:06:02 GMT
I'm under Kernel 2.2.14 and iBCS 2.1, and it loads fine as a module. cat
/proc/modules shows it in the list and I get no errors. But every time I try
to run a binary I'm sure it from an sco openserver I get "bash: binary file
not found" or something similar. I have it chmod 755 so its runable, but no
matter what I can't run the program. gunzip and a program called pkgadd won't
execute. Nothing will. Why? What do I need to make them run? Libraries I'm
missing? How do I find out what a given binary needs? How can I tell for
sure its a sco binary? Are there any test binaries out there that will at
least tell me if my system is working ok or not?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Farid Hamjavar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: where does filesize get set?
Date: 9 May 2000 21:00:26 -0600
Greetings,
% uname -a
Linux hello22 2.2.13 #1 Thu Nov 18 13:44:49 MST 1999 i686 unknown
% limit
cputime unlimited
filesize 35000 kbytes
datasize unlimited
stacksize 8192 kbytes
coredumpsize 500 kbytes
memoryuse unlimited
descriptors 1024
memorylocked unlimited
maxproc 256
I like to know where that 35000 filesize get set?
Following does not show where:
find /etc /root /usr/include -type f -exec egrep 35000 {} \;
I checked all shell-related config files inside /etc.
Nothing in them related to limit setting.
I did not set it interactivly either.
Thanks,
Farid
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damn samba
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 23:13:05 -0400
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Patrick O'Neil wrote:
>
> Alright, this drives me nuts ALL THE TIME. Samba doesn't work
> out of the box on Mandrake 7.0 (can't say anything about Redhat
> and others). I use smbclient to list the shares on a local
> server. Works just fine - I can see the printers I wish to
> print to listed, hence my username, password, and workgroup
> are correct and fine. I can connect to my directory on the
> local network with smbclient as well, no problem. What I cannot
> do, can NEVER do is print to a samba printer that I can see
> (and know actually exists and is correctly listed) in the
> samba shares list.
>
> I go into printtool and setup the printer. It is all entered
> properly (I have had others who know this stuff try as well
> and they get the same crappy no-worky results). When I try
> to print to the samba printer...nothing. No print. I try to
> print a testpage from printtool to any setup samba printer and
> nothing goes. I also don't get any error messages anywhere.
> All I get is an email to root saying that the file couldn't be
> printed. Thank you very damn much Sherlock!
>
> What is the trick to making Mandrake print to a simple ole
> samba share printer? What is Mandrake doing to screw it all
> up? Nothing I do fixes it. I try upgrading samba, downgrading,
> etc, and nothing will make Mandrake print to a share printer.
>
> Can anyone shed light on this showstopping blunder by Mandrakesoft?
>
> Pleeeeze?
According to the smb.conf file on the Samba machine, what IP addresses
have permission to print? What users? Is "guest Ok" set to "yes"?
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Haunted Hard Drive
Date: 09 May 2000 23:43:10 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 May 2000 22:45:42 -0500, John Scudder
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>At least once an evening while I am quiety reading mail, my hard drive
>starts thrashing around for no apparent reason for several minutes or
>more. Then it stops on its own and is quiet for the rest of the
>evening. Why is it doing this? Do you think it is related to my swap
>file?
Does this occur at the same time every evening? SuSE's default
configuration runs a cron job ("man crontab" if you don't know what that
is) every night at 12:00am, which rebuilds a few databases and cleans up
/tmp, among other mundane tasks. It's located in /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base
if you wish to have a look at exactly what it's doing.
And ITYM "swap partition". Linux can use a swap file, but that's not as
efficient. The drive activity has nothing to do with your swapspace at
all, I'd think....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 03:46:18 GMT
Jim Morrissey wrote:
> I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
> Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
> facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
> URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
>
> -Jim
it isn't. if you have a business to run and want to comunicate with others,
use NT.
you can get all the stuff you need to work on linux, and do it cheaper, but
it just wont
work as well as a fully integrated NT network
Mike Menard
systems and data admin
stanley aviation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ramon F Herrera)
Subject: named fails to start on RH Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: 10 May 2000 03:48:53 GMT
I have a couple of Linux servers, one running Red Hat Linux
6.0, and the other 6.1. They are primary DNS servers in their
respective domains.
For some reason, every time I reboot them, everything
gets started properly except 'named', which needs to be
started manually after every reboot.
I have looked in the log files but there is no
indication for this failure to execute the DNS
daemon at boot time.
Is this problem happening to other people or is
it only me?
How can I fix this?
-Ramon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: 09 May 2000 23:58:45 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 May 2000 02:10:48 GMT, Jim Morrissey
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
>Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
>facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
>URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
http://unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/ (the standard)
http://unix-vs-nt.org/webservers.html/ (more ammo)
http://opensourceit.earthweb.com/tools/000327_mainframe.html
(let's see NT do THAT!)
Take a look at the OS that MSN's Hotmail service is running on. Or the OS
that Google is running their [popular, enormous] search engine on. Or the
OS that runs the insanely busy slashdot.org. Bring up the recent ILOVEYOU
disaster and explain why that is unlikely to happen with Linux. Bring out
the GIMP. Bring up StarOffice. ...you get the idea.
I don't know exactly what you mean by "solid facts and figures". Linux is
so new that it's hard to know where to look for statistics that say "Linux
saved us $NUMBER amount of money" or "Linux increased productivity by $FOO
percent."
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Kenzie)
Subject: Re: Need solid facts: Why Linux over NT
Date: 10 May 2000 04:05:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Kenzie)
Dances With Crows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000 02:10:48 GMT, Jim Morrissey
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>I need to put together a presentation to convince management to use
>>Linux rather than NT. To do this properly and succeed, I need solid
>>facts and figures on why Linux is the better OS. Any help or pointers to
>>URL's that cover this topic would be well appreciated!
I'm in the process of dumping NT from my machine. It's been 2 years and
neither Dell or MS have been able to get midi files to play under NT. I
had them playing in a few hours after installing SuSE.
Also I have several users on the machine under NT if a user changes the
screen resolutions it is changed for all the users, not so in linux.
Melissa, ILOVEYOU, happy99.....
They want $1400 for the upgrade of visual suite
They want more for the upgrade to WK2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ramon F Herrera)
Subject: named fails to start on RH Linux
Date: 10 May 2000 04:08:50 GMT
I have a couple of Linux servers, one running Red Hat Linux
6.0, and the other 6.1. They are primary DNS servers in their
respective domains.
For some reason, every time they are rebooted, everything
gets started properly except 'named', which needs to be
started manually after every reboot.
I have looked in the log files but there is no
indication for this failure to execute the DNS
daemon at boot time.
Is this problem happening to other people or is
it only me?
How can I fix this?
-Ramon
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From: Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can anyone answer these questions?
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:05:13 -0400
I seemed to have lost Robert's attention. I was wondering if anyone else wanted to
give
these questions a shot.
> Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > RH> >
> > RH> > /dev/hda1 1-2gig - FAT16 Win C: drive (base system + base applications)
> > RH> > /dev/hda2 64meg - Ext2 linux root: /
> > RH> > /dev/hda3 up to 1/2 way point - FAT32 Win D: drive (put your docs, MP3s,
>MOVs,
> > RH> > AVIs, etc. here)
> > RH> > /dev/hda4 <extended -- the second 1/2 of the disk>
> > RH> > /dev/hda5 128meg -- swap
> > RH> > /dev/hda6 1.5gig -- Ext2 /usr
> > RH> > /dev/hda7 64meg -- Ext2 /var
> > RH> > /dev/hda8 rest of disk -- Ext2 /home
> > RH> >
> > RH> > This sort of partitioning should allow all of /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to
> > RH> > be completely below cylinder 1024. The stock lilo will be happy,
> > RH> > Windows will be happy. Everything should work just fine.
> > RH> >
>
> >
> > Under Linux/UNIX things *appear* to always be one file system, whether it is
> > one partition or 256 partitions. One can 'mount' physical file system
> > (disks / partitions) anywhere that is 'convenient'.
> >
> > The Linux installer will make a file system tree something like this:
> >
> > /
> > /dev
> > /boot
> > /bin
> > /sbin
> > /lib
> > /etc
> > /mnt
> > /tmp
> > /var
> > /var/log
> > /var/spool
> > /var/run
> > /var/tmp (some systems)
> > /var/lock
> > /usr
> > /usr/bin
> > /usr/sbin
> > /usr/lib
>
> >> /usr/local
>
> > /usr/man
> > /usr/share
> > /usr/tmp
> > /home
> >
>
> >> Thank you for your very informative explaination. Using your above example, I
>know you
>
> >> said there was more but I thought I would include /usr/local. Isn't that an
>important
>
> >> path as well? As far as the installer is concerned I can see I guess how it is
>smart
> enough to
>> put the correct directory structures in the proper partitions when you mount
them, for
instance,
>> in a combination such as / , /boot, /usr, /usr/local, /var, /var/spool and /tmp.
But
how would
>> the installer handle mounts named as, for instance, /partitionOne, /partitionTwo,
/partitionThree ... etc.
>> How would the installer negotiate that?
>
> >
> > On a running Linux (or UNIX) system, *partitions* are not a *visible*
> > part of the file system tree, unless one uses the df command. One uses
> > the cd command to move from directory to directory *seamlessly* --
> > a different *physical* file system (partition/disk) is not selected by
> > some special syntax or command, like it is in MS-DOS/MS-Windows. If you
> > never use the df command, you are presently with the *illusion* of one
> > single file system, even when it is broken up across multiple disks and/or
> > partitions.
> >
>
> >> I wrote earlier => But how do I get the data to the partitions and have a working
>file
> >> system afterwards?
> >> I had a feeling the installer was going to hypothetically be the one to do all the
> work.
> >> But like I worded the question before how do I get the data into the partitions
>like I
> >> want them. Lets say I have a functional Linux system on a source drive with one
>big
> >> partition and I break up another disk into many partitions. These partitions are
>ext2
> >> formatted. How do I get the directories I pick and choose from the source disk
>to the
> >> destination disk and have a functional OS on the destination disk? In other
>words I do
>
> >> the work of the installer from one disk to another and am basically wanting to
>clone
> the
> >> OS but from one partition to many.
>
> >> Lastly, how do you recommend partitioning a Linux system and why?
>
> >> Thanks so much.
>
> hoffy
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