thank you very much for explaining :) Tarin Mahmood wrote: > In case of working with partitions *Please backup all you important > data. *Its better to use Live CD to resize your partition, as gparted > needs to unmount partitions before working on it. > > As Hafiz Imtiaz said there is no separate partitions in Linux. The > system Linux uses is called absolute path system. everything is kept > under a single directory. > > Everything is a file in Linux, all your hardwares are located in /dev > directory as files. Every devices have a *mount point > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_point>*. for storage devices mount > points can be any folders under the / directory, So when you are > browsing the folders in Linux it can be a Network drive or a removable > storage or just a simple folder or a different partition. Its > completly transparent. And if you format the / drive the other mounted > storages *will not be formated*. You may have moticed when you attach > your USB pen drive in Ubuntu+Gnome, its automatically mounted under > /media/disk-* > > Say you have 2 PCS with Linux, both of them have user name darklord, > you copy one PCs /home/darklord directory to a removable drive, then > attach it to other PC and mount it in that PCs /home/darklord > directory, you'll have all the settings and files of the first PC > provided that both user Ids are same and you removable drive is > formatted as a ext3 filesystem. And your older home folder will still > be intact. > > So when we tell you that you should use a separate partition for your > home folder, this means we are telling you to > > 1. have a separate ext3 partition > 2. set its mount point to /home (you can do this when installing Linux > or you can set in the /etc/fstab file) > > by following this, when you format the / partition your /home > partition will be unharmed > when you reinstall Linux you would be able to set that partitions > mount point to home and have your documents and settings back :) > > I hope that was clear enough,
> As I'm not good at explaining stuffs :p who said that :p -- DARKLORD (:= Ishtiaque Ahmed (Foisal) My Blog: http://foisal.wordpress.com My youtube : http://www.youtube.com/medarklord pageflakes : http://www.pageflakes.com/darklord.ashx -- ubuntu-bd mailing list ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
