Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu>]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Michael Wahl wrote:
> 
> Please help me for the right understanding:
>   the /root contains only the kernel and the device drivers,
>   the /home is the working area / space for the user (with space for  
>       store of their own data?),
>   the /usr is the main area comparable to WINDOWS PROGRAMMS,
>   /var for printer, mail, newsgroups.
> 
> I?m right?
> 

Hi,

I'm a little slow since there are already several answers, but there's a
lengthy discussion of this topic in the tutorial,

http://www.debian.org/~hp/debian-tutorial.html/

HTH,
Havoc