From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 05:12:06 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 317F316A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:12:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8477643D2D for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:12:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004080905114511300rarl2e> (Authid: jayobrien@att.net); Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:11:45 +0000 Message-ID: <411707A4.8060806@att.net> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:12:04 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions References: <41142284.7060304@att.net> <200408082104.04026.alias2@crotchett.com> <52BCCE6B-E9B5-11D8-9C00-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com> In-Reply-To: <200408082329.30928.alias2@crotchett.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: file system setup for new system - recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 05:12:06 -0000 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