Install of Ubuntu

[Eric L. Howard]

At a certain time, now past [Apr.22.2005-08:53:32AM -0400], m-yg at emailias.com spake thusly:
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> James Wilkinson (ubuntu at westexe.demon.co.uk) (Emailias: REPLY-MASKED) wrote:
> >Original Sender:  <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >Given To:  Yahoo! Groups
> >http://www.emailias.com/mailclick/?id=93684
> ><--------------------end emailias header-------------------->
> >
> >
> >amigian wrote:
> >
> >>Was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on if it is better (or doesn't 
> >>matter) that Ubuntu is installed on the same HD as windoze or on a second 
> >>HD. Thanks.
> >
> >
> >Doesn't really matter.
> >
> >If your hard drives are on separate cables (or if they're SCSI), then
> >you might want to split the hard drive accesses across the two drives.
> >For example, you might want to put /, /usr and swap on one drive, and
> >/var and /home on the other. (This depends on how you'd use the various
> >partitions).
> >
[snip...]
> >you please...
> >
> >James.
> Thanks for the info. As a newbie this is something i want to learn more 
> about - /, /usr, /var and /home. What each is used for, sizes(MB), etc.
> 
> -- 
> Later.
> Marc

man 7 hier in a terminal window.

    ~elh

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