[Techtalk] why the unix filesystem hierarchy is better than drive letters

[gossamer axe]

>
> I think that was me, so thank you for the thought.
>
> I understand his article. Move all your stuff from a crowded /home/anne
> partition onto a new drive and mounting that on /home/anne lets you
> access your stuff with all the extra room, and if you didn't know what
> you had done you would not know where all the extra space had come from!
>
> .... unless you used the df command as I learned just now from his
> article (the -h or --human-readable option is nice).
>
> Anne
>


What's also nice is to have HDs in another machine and the ability to mount
them so they seem like part of the file system.  So having a HD with music
on it, I can mount it /home/gsmraxe/mp3 and it is like it's in my machine.
I used to do a lot of this when I ran my telnet BBS.  I often wish I knew
about Linux when I ran my dial up BBS, it would have run faster and more
reliably :)

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