Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:48:59 Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I'm not sure to understand fully your answer. I know that `guided >> partitioning' is what's adviced for a new user, because it's easy to >> configurate, but I'm here speaking about users who're not beginners, >> but who want to understand the distinction the Debian installer makes >> between the `/' as it is normally in Linux filesystems, and the `/' in >> the installation process, which is actually everything except what was >> asked to be put on other partitions. >> > > Huh? There isn't a difference. Or, at least you are going to have to be a > bit more explicit about what you want told to not-new users. > > The partition containing your file system mounted at '/' does not contain the > data stored in the file system mount at '/home'. (Assuming you have a > separate file system mounted at '/home'.) > Sure, but that's not my point of view when I install the thing. This must be related to me. :) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work.
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