Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:12:04 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations? Message-ID: <411707A4.8060806@att.net> In-Reply-To: <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com> References: <41142284.7060304@att.net> <200408082104.04026.alias2@crotchett.com> <52BCCE6B-E9B5-11D8-9C00-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com>
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Darren Crotchett wrote: > 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. > I wasn't confused, because I didn't know about /root/ until David called my attention to it. So.... not confused, and now better educated. And Darren, thanks for your take on how to allocate my storage. I haven't put the final figures on it yet, I'm waiting for my backup HD. 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@HiWAAY.net
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