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[edit] Introduction

This page is devoted to listing technical linux terms and examples. Please feel free to add to this page as you see fit.
WARNING: All of the information on this page is Arch specific, but may carrry across to other distros as well.

[edit] Convention

Please, please, please! follow this convention and read Help:Editing before adding to this page.

[edit] Partitions

This section contains examples and various info about different types of filesystems and layouts for your partitions.

[edit] Standard Directory Structure

The standard directory structure in Arch Linux is as follows:
(items in bold are generated automatically)

• root partition
  • bin — system utilities
  • boot — kernel boot images and configuration
  • dev — devices
  • etc — system configuration files
    • rc.d — daemon start/stop scripts
    • conf.d — daemon configuration
    • profile.d — global shell configuration
  • home — users personal files
  • lib
    • firmware — firmware for kernel modules
    • modules — kernel modules
    • security — authentication modules
    • tls — glibc modules
    • udev — udev scripts
  • mnt — mounted media
  • opt — large groups of applications
  • proc — process info
  • root — root's personal files
  • sbin — system utilities (root access only)
  • sys — system information
  • tmp — temporary files
  • usr
    • bin — application executables
    • include — application headers
    • lib — application libraries
    • man — man pages
    • sbin — application executables (root acccess only
    • src — kernel source code
    • share — shared application files
  • var
    • abs — Arch ABS files
    • cache — non-volatile storage
      • pacman — pacman cache of package and source files
    • lib — databases of information
      • pacman — pacman repository databases
    • log — log files
    • spool — incoming mail

[edit] Partitioning Layout

There are many many ways to set up your partitions. The examples provided here are simply how some people set up their partitions.

Convention:

*root_partition — size (filesystem)
**partition — size (filesystem)
***sub_partition — size (filesystem)
**partition — size (filesystem)

Explination and details (if desired)

[edit] Shadowhands's Layout

• root — 8G (ext3)
  • boot — 1G (ext3)
  • home — 30G (jfs)
  • var — 4G (reiserfs)
  • media — 140G (ext3)

All of the ext3 partitions are using dir_index (Details) as well. I picked ext3 over ext2 for /boot because ext3 can be mounted as ext2, but offers better data recovery options. I'm using reiserfs for /var because reiserfs is very good at handling a lot of small (<16K) files, which /var (mostly) is. I keep all my music, games, movies, etc. in /media, out of my home dir (which only contains personal files).

[edit] Romashka's Layout

• root — 1G (ext3)
  • boot — 64M (ext3)
  • usr — 8G (ext3)
  • var — 4G (ext3)
  • home — 32G (ext3)
  • storage — 120G (xfs)

[edit] Device Naming

Convention:

Description
*type
#name 1
#name 2
*type
#name 1
#name 2
#name 3

[edit] Hard Drives

In the following list, X = drive letter or number (a-z or 0-99), Y = partition number (0-99). The first drive in udev is a, in devfs and GRUB it is 0

• udev name

1. /dev/hdXY (IDE)
2. /dev/sdXY (SATA/SCSI)

• devfs name (obsolete >= Arch 0.7.1)

1. /dev/discs/discX/partY

• GRUB name

1. (hdX,Y)

[edit] CD/DVD Drives

In the following list, X = drive letter (a-z).

• udev IDE name

1. /dev/hdX

• udev SCSI name (SATA or SCSCI cdrom)

1. /dev/sdX

[edit] USB Drives

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