Main folders

• Boot - info on kernel
• Home - user accounts, often forwarded on a network device
• Etc - config files
• Root - root user account folder
• Var - web-server runs from it, log files are in /var/log

Partitioning of HDD

Basic Desktop

/ - start of the file system, the biggest folder (can be 1 Terabyte+)

/boot/ =~ 100Mb+, sometimes made a separate partitions, so older Linux OS will see it. If it will be a folder in the root partition "/", its' big size is not handled by old OS. Boot-partition needs to be the first partition.

swap partition, 1 or 2x RAM size

Network Workstation (school, business)

/ - local HDD

/boot/ - sometimes a separate partition

/home/ -> mounted on NFS, SMB, SSH on a fast file server

swap space on HDD

Server setup

/ - local HDD

/home/ - possibly on a separate partition

/var/ - for Web-Server, stored separately since it has a lot of use

/usr/ - not used very often, can be mounted from a network as read-only (/usr/bin/apache)