[ Ubuntu-BD ] saparate home folder

[DarkLord (:=]

thank you very much for explaining :)

Tarin Mahmood wrote:
> In case of working with partitions *Please backup all you important 
> data. *Its better to use Live CD to resize your partition, as gparted 
> needs to unmount partitions before working on it.
>
> As Hafiz Imtiaz said there is no separate partitions in Linux. The 
> system Linux uses is called absolute path system. everything is kept 
> under a single directory.
>
> Everything is a file in Linux, all your hardwares are located in /dev 
> directory as files. Every devices have a *mount point 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_point>*. for storage devices mount 
> points can be any folders under the / directory, So when you are 
> browsing the folders in Linux it can be a Network drive or a removable 
> storage or just a simple folder or a different partition. Its 
> completly transparent. And if you format the / drive the other mounted 
> storages *will not be formated*. You may have moticed when you attach 
> your USB pen drive in Ubuntu+Gnome, its automatically mounted under 
> /media/disk-*
>
> Say you have 2 PCS with Linux, both of them have user name darklord, 
> you copy one PCs /home/darklord directory to a removable drive, then 
> attach it to other PC and mount it in that PCs /home/darklord 
> directory, you'll have all the settings and files of the first PC 
> provided that both user Ids are same and you removable drive is 
> formatted as a ext3 filesystem. And your older home folder will still 
> be intact.
>
> So when we tell you that you should use a separate partition for your 
> home folder, this means we are telling you to
>
> 1. have a separate ext3 partition
> 2. set its mount point to /home (you can do this when installing Linux 
> or you can set in the /etc/fstab file)
>
> by following this, when you format the / partition your /home 
> partition will be unharmed
> when you reinstall Linux you would be able to set that partitions 
> mount point to home and have your documents and settings back :)
>
> I hope that was clear enough, 

> As I'm not good at explaining stuffs :p
who said that :p

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