Filesystem

[Rachel]

Hey,

I'm beginner using ubuntu. I want to understand the file system used, can you link me to any beginner tutorial that explains file system in detail.


Thanks!

[reed9]

Not entirely sure what you're asking for.

Linux Filesystem Hierarchy

List of file systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ext3 and ext4 are probably the two most commonly used filesystems in linux and most distros default to one of these two.

[D-cat]

You can start with LFO's own tutorials and guides section. Here's a couple I picked out I think will help answer your question.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-overview.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...rmissions.html

[Rachel]

Thanks D-cat I was looking for something like that.

Previously, I installed Mac-lin4 to bring mac desktop in my Jaunty Jacklope.

sudo mkdir .themes
sudo mkdir .fonts
sudo mkdir .emerald

Where I extracted Mac-lin 4 to my home folder /home/rachel

and then issued the following commands:
cd Mac4Lin_v1.0_RC1
sh Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh

Then I had the mac dekstop.

Now I'm trying to bring up aeroglass emerald theme.
so I installed the lib for emerald
sudo apt-get install libemeraldengine0

Then downloaded the aeroglass theme ( desktop ),but when I tried system->preference ->emerald theme manager.

But the folder is empty /home/rachel/.emerald 'theme': no such file or directory.

How do I copy the file in desktop to /home/rachel/.emerald?

or am I missing anything.

[reed9]

sudo mkdir .themes
sudo mkdir .fonts
sudo mkdir .emerald

You shouldn't use sudo for creating files and directories in your home folder. This means your user will not have the correct permissions to write to these directories.

[Rachel]

But I thought we use the sudo to make sure that only the root(I mean user ) is creating the directory.

Now how can I solve this? Do I need to delete my .fonts and .emerald files, coz .theme file was already there.

[D-cat]

root is not the user, root is the administrator. When you create a directory with sudo, only root will be able to write to it. You want your user to have write access to files and directories in your home directory.

You'll need to use sudo again to reassign the files/folders to your own permissions. I'll assume your username is "rachel", substitute the correct name if I'm wrong...

from your home directory:
sudo chown rachel:users -R .themes
sudo chown rachel:users -R .fonts
sudo chown rachel:users -R .emerald

You should then be able to write your files and configurations to those directories.

[reed9]

It depends where you need to create a file/directory. Everything in your home folder should be owned by your user, not root.

If you were adding system wide themes to /usr/share/themes/ then you would need to use sudo.

You don't need to delete the folders, just change the ownership.

sudo chown -R Rachel /home/Rachel/.emerald/

Also, mkdir .themes would have created that folder in the current directory. If you weren't in ~/.emerald/ then it wouldn't have been created there. cd into the directory first or use the full path.

cd ~/.emerald/
mkdir themes

or

mkdir ~/.emerald/themes

In your first example as well, you're creating hidden directories. If the intent in to put them in ~/.emerald/, then I don't believe they should be hidden. But I haven't used GNOME or Emerald for quite awhile.