Brent Hutto wrote, > Is there a "HOWTO" or something that outlines the current > conventional wisdom about partitions? If not, can somebody clue me in > as to what /usr/local and so forth are used for and why they might be
A good guide is the Linux Filesystem Structure (FSSTND) by Daniel Quinlan. There should be a link to this from the debian webpage. Debian's placement of files follow this standard rather strictly. > need fall in this category). I don't want a dozen partitions > (wouldn't fit on my one 3.2GB disk anyway) but I also don't want to > combine stuff that is hard to sort out later. For my case, I have partitions for / /home/ /usr/local/ These was remants from my previous slackware experience. With debian, I dun think I should need /usr/local/ anymore since upgrading is simply dpkg'ing the new package. -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
