On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some
> more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand.
>
> Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm
> looking at a file sys
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more
> reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand.
>
> Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking
> at a file syste
Greetings:
Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some
more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand.
Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm
looking at a file system, not necessarily a list of physical
locations. But on the other
postid wrote:
Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the
graphical installer to do the following:
#1 primary 19.0 GBntfs
#2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 /
#5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap
#6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home
#1 is Win2000 and boots
> On the Gnome desktop, when I click on the computer icon, I get a list that
> includes an icon for "filesystem," which appears to be #2 since it's 5.5 GB
> total capacity with 3.3 GB used. But I have no icon for #6 which is /home.
The icon is (as the name says) representing the root of "the
files
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:41:53PM EDT, Joe wrote:
> postid wrote:
> >I'm tempted to reinstall, this time making all four partitions
> >primary partitions.
> >
> >These logical partitions seem illogical to me. Have I done something
> >wrong or is it just that way with logical partitions? What are
postid wrote:
I'm tempted to reinstall, this time making all four partitions primary
partitions.
These logical partitions seem illogical to me. Have I done
something wrong or is it just that way with logical partitions? What are
the advantages/disadvantages of logical and primary partitions?
postid wrote:
Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the
graphical installer to do the following:
#1 primary 19.0 GBntfs
#2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 /
#5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap
#6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home
#1 is Win2000 and boots fro
On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:57:34 postid wrote:
> Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the
> graphical installer to do the following:
>
> #1 primary 19.0 GBntfs
> #2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 /
> #5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap
> #6 logical 14.0 GB
Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the
graphical installer to do the following:
#1 primary 19.0 GBntfs
#2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 /
#5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap
#6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home
#1 is Win2000 and boots from grub just fin
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