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Software & hardware support => Newbie questions => Topic started by: Linux_Newbi on February 01, 2014, 10:22:22 PM

Title: Some questions for USB install: home in root, encryption and where pacages go.
Post by: Linux_Newbi on February 01, 2014, 10:22:22 PM
1) Are there any downsides/problems with having home in root? It's just I'm working with a small usb (8gb) and I don't want to run out of space in one off them and have to repartition.



2) Are there any inbuilt tools for encrypting the os! I'm using my install for work and a USB is much easyer to misplace than a laptop, if not, what are some good tools, I've always used truecrypt with windows, but if there is anything better...



3) Ok, now for a verry nooby question, are packages downloaded into home or root?





Thank you verry much for your time and answers! And yes I have used google.
Title: Re: Some questions for USB install: home in root, encryption and where pacages go.
Post by: pavroo on February 01, 2014, 10:33:28 PM
1. You mean 'home' folder on root partition instead of separated 'home' partition? It's no problem.

2. There is not inbuilt encrypting tools yet. I will think about that for next release.

3. What packages? Downloaded for installing via package manager go to /var folder, packages downloaded by you go to /home/you/Download folder.
Title: Re: Some questions for USB install: home in root, encryption and where pacages go.
Post by: Linux_Newbi on February 01, 2014, 11:00:17 PM
3) what I men is when I apt get install something(eg libre office) assuming home and root are on seperate partitions, which will it be installed in(which one should I leave more space in)
Title: Re: Some questions for USB install: home in root, encryption and where pacages go.
Post by: pavroo on February 01, 2014, 11:53:07 PM
Any new downloaded packages go to folder /var, but installed packages go to /usr so it's the root partition.
Title: Re: Some questions for USB install: home in root, encryption and where pacages go.
Post by: crb3 on February 15, 2014, 05:41:25 PM
Packages go in /var/cache/apt/archives when completely downloaded.



If you have Synaptic generate a download script (to lighten the load on your Internet connection, for instance, by running the fetches one by one instead of filling up the bandwidth the way Synaptic likes to do), make sure to edit that script to include

Code:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives


before the first line of wget commands, so everything gets put in the right place.