From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 04:29:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0463D16A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:29:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 719C243D48 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 04:29:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alias2@crotchett.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([68.209.222.4]) by imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.netESMTP <20040809042932.SLDJ14988.imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[192.168.1.100]> for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:29:32 -0400 From: Darren Crotchett To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:29:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <41142284.7060304@att.net> <200408082104.04026.alias2@crotchett.com> <52BCCE6B-E9B5-11D8-9C00-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <52BCCE6B-E9B5-11D8-9C00-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com> Subject: Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: alias2@crotchett.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 04:29:33 -0000 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@HiWAAY.net > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"