Something else that may help is a quick perusal of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 21:14, Richard Busby wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > > To add to Randy's words of wisdom > > > > When you have / partition only all other main directories (/bin, /etc, > > /usr, /home, /var and others) are in that partition. > > > > When you have a separate /home partition, /home no longer needs to be > > placed inside the root partition, but /etc, /var, /usr and others still > > will be. > > *click* Ahh, now it all makes sense. If I'm understanding you and Randy > correctly, there's always a folder within / called usr. If I wish, I can > mount a partition as /usr and that hides the contents of the 'real' usr > folder with whatever's in the parition I just mounted. Of course, most of > the time, /usr is mounted at system boot, so the 'real' usr folder will > always be empty, because by the time the system is reading from it, the > other partition is already mounted as /usr. > > > In my understanding one way to separate partitions is based on which need > > to be written into ands which can be read only. /var and /home normally > > require read/writes. /etc, /usr, and /lib only need write permission when > > you are adding new software. /(root) and /boot only need write permission > > if you are molesting the kernal. > > Yeah, I am familiar with the general theories behind disk usage that says > you should seperate sequential and random I/O on seperate spindles for > performance reasons. Linux obviously extends this concept to different > partitions for differing I/O requirements. > > > Ok, i may have confuddled more than helped... > > No, you and Randy have helped enormously, cheers > Richard HTH, LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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