<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>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 / </div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Oh, and then on my home server, I've got a RAID device mounted at /storage (creative, right?).</div><div><br></div><div>-Andrew</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, paul g <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pj.world@hotmail.com" target="_blank">pj.world@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div dir="ltr">paul@paul-laptop:~$ df<br>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<br>/dev/sda1 55292308 29501632 22981948 57% /<br>none 1022464 300 1022164 1% /dev<br>
none 1026704 728 1025976 1% /dev/shm<br>none 1026704 88 1026616 1% /var/run<br>none 1026704 0 1026704 0% /var/lock<br>none 1026704 0 1026704 0% /lib/init/rw<br>
<br>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. <br><br>Thanks<br><br><div>Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:56:19 -0600<div><div class="h5">
<br>From: <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use?<br>
<br><pre>The 'df' command will tell you where everything is mounted. It looks very <br>much to me like you have everything on the same partition (except swap).<br> <br>On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, paul g wrote:<br> <br>> I just opened up Gparted on my Laptop here running Ubuntu 10.04.<br>
> <br>> It appears there are 3 partitions listed.<br>> <br>> /sda1 ext4<br>> /sda2 extended<br>> /sda5 linux-swap<br>> <br>> I know this is a basic question but how can I see which partition my /home<br>
> and /usr/local etc directories are filed under? I noticed in my case that my<br>> /usr/local/etc directory is basically empty but not the /usr directory.<br>> <br>> Thank You.<br>> <br>> > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:45:56 -0600<br>
> > From: <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a><br>> > To: <a href="mailto:tclug-list@mn-linux.org" target="_blank">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br>> > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use?<br>
> ><br>> > Just want to point out that you CAN skip versions with Ubuntu. Probably<br>> > not unlimited version skips, but I just went from 12.04 to 13.10 on a<br>> > couple of machines in one go.<br>
> ><br>> > Now if you're going to do a reinstall, well, this is why we keep /home and<br>> > /usr/local etc on separate partitions (: You can reinstall the OS and keep<br>> > all your data and configuration.<br>
> ><br>> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Mike Miller wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a> wrote:<br>> > ><br>
> > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote:<br>> > >><br>> > >>> For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox version<br>> say<br>> > >>> '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and<br>
> > >>> webpage design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox or<br>> > >>> Opera to 'surf' the web? Just a curious question I am a noob.<br>> > >><br>> > >> Might be some small things that won't work, but in general you should<br>
> be<br>> > >> fine.<br>> > >><br>> > >> Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and<br>> bigger.<br>> > >> Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long time.<br>
> It<br>> > >> all depends on what kind of content you want.<br>> > >><br>> > >> May I ask why you're running such an old version of Ubuntu?<br>> > ><br>> > ><br>
> > > I wasn't the OP (that was paul g), but I'm using 10.10 on my home Linux<br>> box.<br>> > > One reason for that is I tried to upgrade and it did not work. I think<br>> > > sometime in the next few months I'll get around to just redoing<br>
> everything to<br>> > > and installing fresh. Apparently, if you don't upgrade soon enough, you<br>> > > can't upgrade at all. I'm not sure why. Another Ubuntu thing is that you<br>> > > can only upgrade to the next version -- you can't skip ahead. I don't<br>
> know<br>> > > why that is, but it's annoying. So now I'm trying to keep up-to-date on<br>> the<br>> > > machines that are current enough to allow upgrades. I don't like to<br>> upgrade<br>
> > > immediately when a new version comes out, but maybe a month later, in<br>> case<br>> > > they had some bugs to work out.<br>> > ><br>> > > I'm using Firefox 11.0 on that Ubuntu 10.10 box and it seems to be<br>
> working<br>> > > fine. I don't know what I'll be getting for upgrading Firefox -- that<br>> will<br>> > > be interesting to see.<br>> > ><br>> > > I have an even older box that I use more -- it's running Ubuntu 9.10. I<br>
> > > would love to get that upgraded, too. The main problem there is that I'm<br>> > > constantly using it. I bought another machine to replace it, but I<br>> couldn't<br>> > > get everything to work on that new machine. I should try again. We have<br>
> to<br>> > > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines do<br>> what<br>> > > we want. I'm getting a lot out of it, though. A lot. There is nothing in<br>> > > the conventional Mac/Windows world to compare.<br>
> > ><br>> > > On that 9.10 machine I'm mostly using Chromium-Browser. It gives me this<br>> > > version information:<br>> > ><br>> > > 13.0.768.0 (Developer Build 85577 Linux) Ubuntu 9.10<br>
> > ><br>> > > I'm sure that's a few years out of date. It definitely is starting to<br>> cause<br>> > > some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't seem to upgrade the<br>
> flash<br>> > > and some web sites won't work because of that. Some sites will complain<br>> > > about my old browser and tell me to upgrade (which I cannot do, it<br>> seems),<br>> > > but those sites still work OK, as far as I can tell.<br>
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