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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>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 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.<br><br>Thank You.<br><br><div>> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:45:56 -0600<br>> From: tclug@freakzilla.com<br>> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org<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, tclug@freakzilla.com 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 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 be <br>> >> fine.<br>> >> <br>> >> Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and bigger. <br>> >> Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long time. 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 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 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 know <br>> > why that is, but it's annoying. So now I'm trying to keep up-to-date on the <br>> > machines that are current enough to allow upgrades. I don't like to upgrade <br>> > immediately when a new version comes out, but maybe a month later, in 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 working <br>> > fine. I don't know what I'll be getting for upgrading Firefox -- that 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 couldn't <br>> > get everything to work on that new machine. I should try again. We have to <br>> > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines do 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 cause <br>> > some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't seem to upgrade the 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 seems), <br>> > but those sites still work OK, as far as I can tell.<br>> ><br>> > Mike<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> > tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br>> ><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br>> tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<br></div> </div></body>
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