Question about Linux file system

[aroldgre]

Hello Fellows,

I am sorry if my questions are kind of too preliminary.

What is the difference between "/" and "/root" in Linux?
What can "c:\" in windows compared to in Linux?
Which partition should have the most space of your HD in Linux?

I wanted to manually partition my 3TB HD for Linuxmint 12 dedicated for virtualization, but I panic about the sizes of the partitions. I will be running both Linux and Windows servers on it.

Can someone suggest some documents that I could check out to understand this in depth?

Respectfully,
aroldgre

[yancek]

The "/" forward slash symbolizes the root of the filesystem and /root is just the root user directory. You can easily see the difference by simple running the ls command to list directories and files in each on any Linux system:

ls /
ls /root

give you two very different outputs. I guess the / would be similar to C:\ in windows.

The partition which needs the most space would depend upon the use. Most users and particularly new users just create one partition for the filesystem and a swap partition. If you have a lot of personal data, pictures, music, etc. you could create a separate /home partition or a separate data partition. If you are going to be running a server, most server files are in the /var/www directory although this varies with the distribution.

[linuxwin2]

You can look this guide
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/intro-linux.pdf