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Re: Hard Drives.
Effectively yes, from a windows POV each partition is given its own letter so to most people it is seen as a 'seperate' hard disk.
Linux does filesystems in a far more logical way. everything starts at / (or root) there is a defined set of sub folders, some read only, some read/write. the list is bin, boot, dev, etc, home, lib, mnt, opt, proc, root, sbin, sys, tmp, usr, var
You can 'mount' a partition anywhere on the tree, so for example, under /home is where people have their 'My Documents' so /home/entwisi is mine, /home/buttonsmum is Julie's. There is no reason that my 'folder' has to be on the same partition as julies.
Its sounds a bit strange to people who have only ever used Windows but in reality it is far easier to manage. e.g. lets say /home is nearly full with mine and Julies stuff, and I want to create an account for Siobhan. I can just stick another disk in and put her account on there and just 'mount' it at /home/siobhan. Job done, no copying of data here there or anywhere.
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