On Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 0:55:22, Mica Mijatovic wrote: > Yes, they do that too, and in various ways. Basically, the entire > "administration" can be (and indeed is, by more advanced, "demanding", > "weird" users) divided into much more specialized sectors, and perhaps > best example is the quite "classical" Linux/Unix strategy. There you can > see that it by default has several (6-7) main partitions... > /bin # programs coming with OS itself and shared by all users > /etc # OS settings and related tools > /home # place for (non-root) users > /root # for the "boss" and his/her privileged secrets and tricks > /tmp > /usr # for programs installed and shared by users
This is actually wrong - of these only /home, /tmp and /usr can be on a separate partition. /bin, /etc, /sbin must always be on the root partition, or the system won't boot (/root can be on a separate partition, but you'll have problems if you ever need to boot to single-user mode; also, the typical /root directory is so small it doesn't make sense to waste space by using a separate partition for it). > This of course is not the case with "modern" Linux installations > that imitate the Windows, installing all on just one single > partition, in order to make it for the users accustomed to > Windows easier to manage. Modern Linux distributions let you do as you please. For a typical home user, there's no point in using more than two partitions (/ and swap), and it makes it much easier to manage the system. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > In any household, junk accumulates to fill the space available for its storage. -- Boston's Irreversible Law of Clutter ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.85.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
