/ is the root filesystem or the root directory. All other direcotries and/or filesystems live under /. /root is, in many cases, the root user's home directory. There is really no reason to put this on it's own partition, or really have anything in it. You should never, ever be logged in directly as root unless some really bad catastrophe happened and that's the only way to fix stuff. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > When you refer to '/' is that the same as /root partition? > > Thanks > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > From: droidjd at gmail.com > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:46:44 -0600 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use? > > I typically always do a / and /home partition. That way, if something goes > wrong with my system, I can blow away / without affecting my /home data. > It's good practice to also create a separate /var partition, as if something > goes wrong and logs start filling up like crazy, they only fill up /var and > not / > > I never create separate /usr, /usr/local partitions, but I suppose you would > for the same reason as my rationale for /home, but I'm not sure if there are > additional reasons for doing so. > > Oh, and then on my home server, I've got a RAID device mounted at /storage > (creative, right?). > > -Andrew > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > paul at paul-laptop:~$ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted > on > /dev/sda1 55292308 29501632 22981948 57% / > none 1022464 300 1022164 1% /dev > none 1026704 728 1025976 1% /dev/shm > none 1026704 88 1026616 1% /var/run > none 1026704 0 1026704 0% > /var/lock > none 1026704 0 1026704 0% > /lib/init/rw > > How typical is it to create a separate Root, Home, Usr, Var,Tmp > Partitions. Like you said I may want to consider separate /usr, > /home partitions. > > Thanks > > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:56:19 -0600 > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for > basic use? > > The 'df' command will tell you where everything is mounted. It looks very > much to me like you have everything on the same partition (except swap). > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > > > I just opened up Gparted on my Laptop here running Ubuntu 10.04. > > > > > > It appears there are 3 partitions listed. > > > > /sda1 ext4 > > /sda2 extended > > /sda5 linux-swap > > > > I know this is a basic question but how can I see which partition my /home > > > > and /usr/local etc directories are filed under? I noticed in my case that > my > > /usr/local/etc directory is basically empty but not the /usr directory. > > > > Thank You. > > > > > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:45:56 -0600 > > > > > From: tclug at freakzilla.com > > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic us > e? > > > > > > > > Just want to point out that you CAN skip versions with Ubuntu. Probably > > > not unlimited version skips, but I just went from 12.04 to 13.10 on a > > > couple of machines in one go. > > > > > > > > Now if you're going to do a reinstall, well, this is why we keep /home a > nd > > > /usr/local etc on separate partitions (: You can reinstall the OS and ke > ep > > > all your data and configuration. > > > > > > > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Mike Miller wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox versi > on > > say > > > >>> '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and > > > > > >>> webpage design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox > or > > > >>> Opera to 'surf' the web? Just a curious question I am a noob. > > > >> > > > >> Might be some small things that won't work, but in general you should > > > > be > > > >> fine. > > > >> > > > >> Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and > > bigger. > > > >> Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long tim > e. > > > > It > > > >> all depends on what kind of content you want. > > > >> > > > >> May I ask why you're running such an old version of Ubuntu? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I wasn't the OP (that was paul g), but I'm using 10.10 on my home Linu > x > > box. > > > > One reason for that is I tried to upgrade and it did not work. I think > > > > sometime in the next few months I'll get around to just redoing > > > > everything to > > > > and installing fresh. Apparently, if you don't upgrade soon enough, yo > u > > > > can't upgrade at all. I'm not sure why. Another Ubuntu thing is that y > ou > > > > can only upgrade to the next version -- you can't skip ahead. I don't > > > > know > > > > why that is, but it's annoying. So now I'm trying to keep up-to-date o > n > > the > > > > machines that are current enough to allow upgrades. I don't like to > > upgrade > > > > > > immediately when a new version comes out, but maybe a month later, in > > case > > > > they had some bugs to work out. > > > > > > > > I'm using Firefox 11.0 on that Ubuntu 10.10 box and it seems to be > > > > working > > > > fine. I don't know what I'll be getting for upgrading Firefox -- that > > will > > > > be interesting to see. > > > > > > > > I have an even older box that I use more -- it's running Ubuntu 9.10. > I > > > > > > would love to get that upgraded, too. The main problem there is that I > 'm > > > > constantly using it. I bought another machine to replace it, but I > > couldn't > > > > get everything to work on that new machine. I should try again. We hav > e > > > > to > > > > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines d > o > > what > > > > we want. I'm getting a lot out of it, though. A lot. There is nothing > in > > > > the conventional Mac/Windows world to compare. > > > > > > > > > > On that 9.10 machine I'm mostly using Chromium-Browser. It gives me th > is > > > > version information: > > > > > > > > 13.0.768.0 (Developer Build 85577 Linux) Ubuntu 9.10 > > > > > > > > > > I'm sure that's a few years out of date. It definitely is starting to > > cause > > > > some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't seem to upgrade the > > > > flash > > > > and some web sites won't work because of that. Some sites will complai > n > > > > about my old browser and tell me to upgrade (which I cannot do, it > > seems), > > > > but those sites still work OK, as far as I can tell. > > > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing > List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >