Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations?

From: Jay O'Brien (jayobrien_at_att.net)
Date: 08/09/04

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    Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:12:04 -0700
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    Darren Crotchett wrote:

    > On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:36 pm, David Kelly wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same
    >>thing as "the root directory '/'", right? :-)
    >
    >
    > Yeah. When I got to the end of my email and had to type "/" again, I thought
    > I had accidentally written /root when I meant "/" earlier. I looked for the
    > mistake and didn't see it. So, yeah. I know the difference. My bad.
    >
    > My apologies if I confused Jay.
    >

    I wasn't confused, because I didn't know about /root/ until David called
    my attention to it. So.... not confused, and now better educated.

    And Darren, thanks for your take on how to allocate my storage. I haven't
    put the final figures on it yet, I'm waiting for my backup HD.

    Jay

     
    >>/root/ is not a bad place to put a few little things such as a list of
    >>critical files to feed to "tar -cI" to backup one's specific
    >>configuration. /root/ *is* on the / partition so you don't want to put
    >>much there.
    >>
    >>--
    >>David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net

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