It's sadly not really all that typical anymore for home installations. It's good practice but the installers for popular Linux distributions (i.e., ubuntu) just put everything on /. I personally have separate partitions for /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, and /usr/local, as well as separate partitions just for VM images. I used to keep /usr/local/src separate when I used to do a lot of builds (that goes in ~/src now). There are some things I have completely separate disks for (like all my photos). On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, paul g 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 us > e? > > > > > > 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 a > nd > > > /usr/local etc on separate partitions (: You can reinstall the OS and ke > ep > > > 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 versi > on > > 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 tim > e. > > 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 Linu > x > > 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, yo > u > > > > can't upgrade at all. I'm not sure why. Another Ubuntu thing is that y > ou > > > > 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 o > n > > 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 hav > e > > to > > > > admit that there are all kinds of hassles with making these machines d > o > > 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 th > is > > > > 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 complai > n > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - > Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >