file system setup for new system - recommendations?

Darren Crotchett alias2 at crotchett.com
Sun Aug 8 21:29:33 PDT 2004


On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:36 pm, David Kelly wrote:

>
> Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same
> thing as "the root directory '/'", right?  :-)

Yeah.  When I got to the end of my email and had to type "/" again, I thought 
I had accidentally written /root when I meant "/" earlier.  I looked for the 
mistake and didn't see it.  So, yeah.  I know the difference.  My bad.

My apologies if I confused Jay.

>
> /root/ is not a bad place to put a few little things such as a list of
> critical files to feed to "tar -cI" to backup one's specific
> configuration. /root/ *is* on the / partition so you don't want to put
> much there.
>
> --
> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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