<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Marko Vojinovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vvmarko@gmail.com">vvmarko@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
In principle one probably could tweak a system into booting from the /home<br>
partition, but I see no reason to ever want such a configuration. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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You want to think of the /home partition as your working area --- it is used<br>
for storing useful personal data, custom configurations of your favorite apps,<br>
local e-mail folders, etc. Something like the "Documents and settings" folder<br>
in Windows, only much more useful.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ah well, asked just for information, not going to do that, really there is not reason to do that. But why I asked because everytime we do partition on the hard disk when we can boot from each partition so just thought in that way that /home is a partition but still it is there to have data only... <br>
<br>I was confused since I thought earlier that partitions are always bootable, but we can have /home as partition which is still not booted (for clarification).<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Some people also separate other parts of the filesystem into separate<br>
partitions, like /boot, /etc, /var, /tmp. /srv, and so on, depending on the<br>
planned purpose of the system, and their personal preferences for how to use<br>
it.</blockquote><div><br>Well, I could have all the separate partitions like you say, but as you said to have only the separate partitions of '/' and 'home', so now I have only Three partitions:-<br><br>linuxworld@linux-g34l:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l<br>
<br>Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors<br>Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0xfedcfedc<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 63 245106699 122553318+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT<br>
/dev/sda2 * 245108734 488396799 121644033 5 Extended<br>/dev/sda5 478427136 488396799 4984832 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>/dev/sda6 245108736 287049727 20970496 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda7 287051776 478414847 95681536 83 Linux<br>
<br>Partition table entries are not in disk order<br><br></div></div>But I don't know having separate all the partitions would server a good purpose for initial tasks...? Perhaps they (people) might be using it for their personal reasons... (whatever those reasons are...).<br>
<br>One more thing amazing me is that, (however it could be a silly doubt, I don't know...) when I typed in Ubuntu:<br><br>sudo fdisk -l<br><br>it worked. But here when I type the above command it doesn't work, but rather what I need to type here is as follows:<br>
<br>sudo /sbin/fdisk -l<br><br>Now, why that /sbin/ is coming, is it a bug (please don't laugh if it is not...).<br><br>Thanks man.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>THX<br>