I typically always do a / and /home partition.  That way, if something goes
wrong with my system, I can blow away / without affecting my /home data.

It's good practice to also create a separate /var partition, as if
something goes wrong and logs start filling up like crazy, they only fill
up /var and not /

I never create separate /usr, /usr/local partitions, but I suppose you
would for the same reason as my rationale for /home, but I'm not sure if
there are additional reasons for doing so.

Oh, and then on my home server, I've got a RAID device mounted at /storage
(creative, right?).

-Andrew


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:11 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:

> paul at paul-laptop:~$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             55292308  29501632  22981948  57% /
> none                   1022464       300   1022164   1% /dev
> none                   1026704       728   1025976   1% /dev/shm
> none                   1026704        88   1026616   1% /var/run
> none                   1026704         0   1026704   0% /var/lock
> none                   1026704         0   1026704   0% /lib/init/rw
>
> How typical is it to create a separate Root, Home, Usr, Var,Tmp
> Partitions. Like you said I may want to consider separate /usr, /home
> partitions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:56:19 -0600
>
> From: tclug at freakzilla.com
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use?
>
> The 'df' command will tell you where everything is mounted. It looks very
> much to me like you have everything on the same partition (except swap).
>
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, paul g wrote:
>
> > I just opened up Gparted on my Laptop here running Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> >
> > It appears there are 3 partitions listed.
> >
> > /sda1 ext4
> > /sda2 extended
> >  /sda5 linux-swap
> >
> > I know this is a basic question but how can I see which partition my /home
>
> > and /usr/local etc directories are filed under? I noticed in my case that my
> > /usr/local/etc directory is basically empty but not the /usr directory.
> >
> > Thank You.
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:45:56 -0600
>
> > > From: tclug at freakzilla.com
> > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will Firefox 20.0 become obselete for basic use?
>
> > >
> > > Just want to point out that you CAN skip versions with Ubuntu. Probably
> > > not unlimited version skips, but I just went from 12.04 to 13.10 on a
> > > couple of machines in one go.
>
> > >
> > > Now if you're going to do a reinstall, well, this is why we keep /home and
> > > /usr/local etc on separate partitions (: You can reinstall the OS and keep
> > > all your data and configuration.
>
> > >
> > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Mike Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
> > > >
>
> > > >> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, paul g wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> For a basic home/office computer user running an older FireFox version
> > say
> > > >>> '20.0' under Ubuntu 10.04 etc '2.6.-- kernel' will new web pages and
>
> > > >>> webpage design soon require the need for a later version of FireFox or
> > > >>> Opera to 'surf' the web? Just a curious question I am a noob.
> > > >>
> > > >> Might be some small things that won't work, but in general you should
>
> > be
> > > >> fine.
> > > >>
> > > >> Of course, as time goes on, those small things will get bigger and
> > bigger.
> > > >> Still, basic HTML with basic javascript should be fine for a long time.
>
> > It
> > > >> all depends on what kind of content you want.
> > > >>
> > > >> May I ask why you're running such an old version of Ubuntu?
> > > >
> > > >
>
> > > > I wasn't the OP (that was paul g), but I'm using 10.10 on my home Linux
> > box.
> > > > One reason for that is I tried to upgrade and it did not work. I think
> > > > sometime in the next few months I'll get around to just redoing
>
> > everything to
> > > > and installing fresh. Apparently, if you don't upgrade soon enough, you
> > > > can't upgrade at all. I'm not sure why. Another Ubuntu thing is that you
> > > > can only upgrade to the next version -- you can't skip ahead. I don't
>
> > know
> > > > why that is, but it's annoying. So now I'm trying to keep up-to-date on
> > the
> > > > machines that are current enough to allow upgrades. I don't like to
> > upgrade
>
> > > > immediately when a new version comes out, but maybe a month later, in
> > case
> > > > they had some bugs to work out.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using Firefox 11.0 on that Ubuntu 10.10 box and it seems to be
>
> > working
> > > > fine. I don't know what I'll be getting for upgrading Firefox -- that
> > will
> > > > be interesting to see.
> > > >
> > > > I have an even older box that I use more -- it's running Ubuntu 9.10. I
>
> > > > would love to get that upgraded, too. The main problem there is that I'm
> > > > constantly using it. I bought another machine to replace it, but I
> > couldn't
> > > > get everything to work on that new machine. I should try again. We have
>
> > to
> > > > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines do
> > what
> > > > we want. I'm getting a lot out of it, though. A lot. There is nothing in
> > > > the conventional Mac/Windows world to compare.
>
> > > >
> > > > On that 9.10 machine I'm mostly using Chromium-Browser. It gives me this
> > > > version information:
> > > >
> > > > 13.0.768.0 (Developer Build 85577 Linux) Ubuntu 9.10
>
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure that's a few years out of date. It definitely is starting to
> > cause
> > > > some problems. The biggest problem is that I can't seem to upgrade the
>
> > flash
> > > > and some web sites won't work because of that. Some sites will complain
> > > > about my old browser and tell me to upgrade (which I cannot do, it
> > seems),
> > > > but those sites still work OK, as far as I can tell.
>
> > > >
> > > > Mike
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