> -----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
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