[QCLUG] Directories as partitions

[Mark Overholser Jr]

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You're on the right track. When you install a linux distro, / is your root
filesystem which is mounted to some partition on some device. Then, 'home'
is a directory located inside of that where the home files for the users are
stored. Some distributions allow you (and even encourage you) to make a
separate partition on your drive and then have the distribution mount that
to /home so that if you delete your main partition (that was mounted to /)
you will still have all of the things that you stored in your home folder
and on your desktop.

So, to answer your final question (couldn't [/home] as easily be just a
directory?) .......yes

On 7/18/07, Jim Hall <volunteer@revealed.net> wrote:
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> Do I remember correctly that Linux can treat any directory as a
> partition or drive? For example, '/home' is usually a partition (in any
> install I've made), but couldn't it as easily be just a directory?
>
> Jim
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