Richard Busby wrote: > I'm still trying to get to grips with the *nix partitioning scheme - one of > the things I don't understand is the replacement of /usr and /var with > /home, which is what a lot of people seem to recommend. For example, I'm > looking at setting up a box as a webserver (low usage, just to test on > really) and the apache docs say it will install itself to > /usr/local/apache - which it won't be able to do if I've only got / and > /home.
If you've only got / and /home, anything "below" / but not in /home will be on the / partition (for example, /usr and /var). > > Obviously this isn't a fatal problem, but how do you get around it? How do > you tell apache (or any other app for that matter, especially commercial > ones where you couldn't alter the makefile) to install to /home/usr ? Hmm, is someone telling you to install to /home/usr, or to /usr. I would expect it's /usr. In either case, you basically cd to the directory, or mkdir to make a directory. Aside: As a Windows refuge, I found it confusing that any directory can be a mount point where you can mount a disk partition. If you don't understand that, you want to learn about it. Write back if you can't make sense of it. (Perhaps someone would phrase it differently -- a hard disk partition can be mounted (in | to) any directory. If stuff existed in that directory before the mount, it will be hidden while the partition is mounted there. hth, Randy Kramer > > Cheers > Richard > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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