where would i store things?

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: where would i store things?
started by: SleepWalkerX

Posted by SleepWalkerX on July 18 2005,00:03

i'm sorta new to linux and new to DSL. i just installed it successfully to the hard drive with the frugal install. since i'm used to windows, with it i would just copy and paste a file from the a: drive to the desktop or to like the c: drive some where.

so how would i store a file from /mnt/floppy to anywhere? i assume maybe ramdisk/home/dsl, but if its in the ramdisk wouldn't it get cleared by next restart?

where do regular linux users store files with this distro? and i assume the easiest way to access a folder would be through Emelfm?

Posted by adssse on July 18 2005,04:24

Being new you would probably be more comfortable using Emelfm over the bash shell.

As far as ramdisk is concerned that depends on if in your frugal install you are using a persistent home & opt. If your are than ramdisk is persistent with the home on whatever partition you are using (ex: /mnt/hda2/home/dsl).

As far as where people store their files, I guess it can be a preference. I believe most store them in the home directory or create another directory in it such as /documents to keep it more organized. Since you are using a frugal install keep in mind that you can use .filetool.lst to have it backup certain files, assuming you are using backup/restore.

Someone will probably come along who has better advice for you but this is my take on it.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 18 2005,20:00

If you are using DSL version 1.3, all you need to do is activate the Backup/Restore process.

Then all new files located is /home/dsl directory will get backed up to your backup.tar.gz archive and automatically restored on bootup.

Of course you will need some read/write place to store your backup archive like a hard drive partition or a USB drive for example.

Posted by SleepWalkerX on July 20 2005,19:14

ok i see, thanks.

also, it keeps saying i'm running out of space (so i can't install some stuff like gcc1.dsl). it says to run 'e2fsck'. i ran 'e2fsck /dev/hda2' and it just said it was clean. i thought i made hda2 like a 2 gig partition. how do i manage my hard drive space or clean up space? will i have to repartition?