Robert Yu wrote: >>>Mikr I take it you took the time to read this. Does this mean that if >>>I only put the /, and the /home, and the Swap space. Would this mean >>>that nothing else is put these directories and that if you want >>>something extra, I'll throw in fat. > > Thanks for the 13th reply to answer my questions. So the three main > points of Linux that must be created are: /main root, /swap/, and > /home (and maybe /mnt/windows for Linux; and the rest, /lib and /var, > are dropped into the /main root partition . Would Konqueror be a good > replacement for WIndows Explorer? > >From what I have seen, it is. I tend to use Midnight Commander in an xterm, but that is personal preferrence. It lets me use the same file manager in both the command line, and in X. I also have a copy that I use with Windows. > >>What happens is that everything is put in the / partition, except the >>files/directories that go in the /home partition. If you didn't have a >>/home partition, then the everyting would be on the / partition. The >>swap partition is a special case - it doesn't get mounted the way other >>partitions do, and it used the same way the swap file is used in Windows >>- like it is SLOW system memory. > > In this case, if stuff is actually put into the / partition and I > didn't include the /home partition of the three important partitions, > unless I know what to do in /, wouldn't it be trouble? > No. What would happen if you didn't have a seperate /home partition is that /home would be a normal directory instead of a mount point, and each user's home directory would be created in this directory. The only time this would be a problem is if you wanted to do a full install instead of an upgrade. When /home is its own partition, you can preserve the data there, while formatting the rest of the / partition. If /home is part of the / partition, you have to do a backup and restore to preserve the data in /home. > >>One thing that is very different between Linux and Windows is the way >>disk partitions are handled. With Windows, each partition gets a >>seperate drive letter. C:, D:, etc. With Linux, this doesn't happen. >>Instead, when you mount a partition, it becomes part of the root (/) >>file system. with your home partition mounted on /home, changing from >>the /etc directory to the /home directory is like changing from drive C: >>to drive D: in Windows, but it is done invisably to you, and to most of >>the programs you run. There are some programs that are awary of the >>different partitions, but they are mainly programs that report disk >>usabe, and backup programs that have the option of only backing up data >>from one partition. > > Always a pleasure talking to you, Mikkel. Just have a one question: > does that stuff belongs to /Home stay in /Home? From what I've heard > from others, I wouldn't want to do anything with root priveleges. > After all, "whoever fiddles in /root will eventually kill tree". If > you don't mind my asking: what are your partitions? > I am not sure I understand the question. Anything written to the /home directory when the /home partition is mounted gets written to that partition. This includes things written to any subdirectory of /home. So if your home directory is /home/robert, then anything written to the /home/robert directory ends up on the /home disk partition.
Keep in mind that /Home is not the same as /home. User's home directories are normaly in /home, so if you create a mount point called /Home, you will still end up with a /home directory as part of /. My partition, on this machine, is fairly simple: /dev/hda1 40G /mnt/windows /dev/hda2 22M /boot /dev/hda5 650M SWAP /dev/hda6 5.6G / /dev/hda7 12G /home /dev/hda8 805M SWAP /dev/hda9 54G /backup The two swap partitions are so I can play with software suspend, and having 768M of system RAM. I usualy don't need any swap space, but I needed a big swap partition to suspend the to. The /boot partition isn't needed on this machine, but it was needed on the m achine the drive used to be in. It is also kind of a habit from older installs... If you want to see a complicated partitioning setup, I can grab the one from my file server. It has the partitions split between 3 drives. It has 2 SCSI drives, and 1 IDE drive. It boots off a SCSI drive. The IDE drive was a later addition, and is used only for data storage. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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