gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Dan, > > You wrote: "You don't need a separate /usr or /usr/local or /opt or /srv > under any conditions. That differentiation comes from a time when disks were > tens of megabytes." > > Am I right to assume that when I install Debian, there won't be partitions > such as /usr, /usr/local, /opt and /srv created on my hard disk drive?
You'll have those as directories if you don't have them as partitions. Any partition (actually, the filesystem) can be mounted as any directory. > I only started to get serious about using Linux or *BSD distros after Edward > Snowden's revelations. Prior to that I was a 100% Microsoft Windows guy. You might want to let the Debian installer install a fully encrypted root and home, if that's the sort of thing you're worried about. I ran DOS and Windows and was just tinkering around with Linux in 1993 or so when a friend playfully touched the reset button on my PC (it made sense in context) and destroyed the paper I was writing. I decided I would see if I could get by with only Linux. Turned out I can. -dsr-
