Basic Linux Guide - Revision history

Kingu: added network shares

2013-09-12T14:45:17Z

added network shares

2013-09-12T13:16:01Z

merged "to mount a folder via ssh"

2011-05-23T04:54:13Z

‎Common directories

2011-05-23T04:52:38Z

‎Common directories

2011-05-22T06:02:44Z

‎Common directories: mnt/tmp

2011-05-16T23:05:08Z

2011-05-16T04:17:24Z

‎Common directories

2011-05-16T04:12:34Z

‎Common directories: a few more important notes...

2011-04-19T18:24:24Z

links

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formating

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 *Then enter <source lang="bash">sshfs user@IP:/folder/to/mount /where/to/mount/on/the/Pandora</source>where "user" is your username on the pc, "IP" it's IP address, "/folder/to/mount" the folder on the pc you want to mount on your Pandora (for example /home/user) and "/where/to/mount/on/the/Pandora" the folder you created where you want to mount it on the Pandora.
 *You will be asked for a password, here enter the password of the user on the pc whose name you entered for "user" in the last step
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 ==See also==
 * http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide
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 !Folder!!Comment
 |-
-|'''/media/*'''||External media such as SD cards, flash drives and HDDs show up in here as folders. You can think of these folders as shortcuts to the devices.
+|'''/media/*'''||External media such as SD cards, flash drives and HDDs show up in here as folders. You can think of these folders as shortcuts to the devices. Almost everything you do on the Pandora will be done here.
 |-
 |'''/usr/'''||Here is where you'll find programs and files installed on the Pandora itself. Core applications such as the web browser, media player, and other applications that are available the first time you start your Pandora are stored here inside the "/share" folder. If you decide to install anything via the "ipkg" command (covered later), this is where the files needed by those installations will end up.

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 === Common directories ===
-Inside of the root directory ("/") are quite a lot of other directories. Here are the most important ones:
+Inside of the root directory ("/") are quite a lot of other directories. Here are the most important ones for a Pandora user:
 {|class="wikitable"
 !Folder!!Comment

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 |-
 |'''/mnt/utmp'''||Often, programs will ask you to save to their folders in this directory. Anything "saved" here is actually saved at the analogous location in your "/media/[your SD card]/pandora/appdata" directory.
 |}

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 |'''/home'''||This is where all of the files that are owned by all users are stored. Users do not generally have write-access to anything outside of this directory. This directory is on the [[NAND]] and has limited space, as are all directories except for /media
 |-
-|'''/home/username'''||Here are the personal files of user "username". In this directory, you will find a directory called "Documents", "Pictures", "Desktop" etc. that correspond to that users personal directories. This directory is also called "username"'s home directory, and can be abbreviated with "~/" (if you're currently logged in as username) or "~username/".
+|'''/home/username'''||Here are the personal files of user "username". In this directory, you will find a directory called "Documents", "Pictures", "Desktop" etc. that correspond to that user's personal directories. This directory is also called "username"'s home directory, and can be abbreviated with "~/" (if you're currently logged in as username) or "~username/".
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 |'''/tmp'''||Home of temporary files. On the Pandora, you'll find several files here with .out extensions. If a program crashes, the developers may ask you to find its .out file and copy+paste the content, so they can see what went wrong.

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 |'''/bin<br>/lib'''||System binaries and libraries are stored here. Most of the terminal commands mentioned below can be found inside of "/bin". You should generally never have to touch this directory, either.
 |-
-|'''/mnt/utmp'''||Often, programs will ask you to save to their folders in this directory. Anything "saved" here is actually saved at the analogous location in your "/media/pandora/appdata" directory.
+|'''/mnt/utmp'''||Often, programs will ask you to save to their folders in this directory. Anything "saved" here is actually saved at the analogous location in your "/media/[your SD card]/pandora/appdata" directory.
 |}

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 * "." - Refers to the current directory, or the "same directory" in a path. What this means, is that if you type "cd .", nothing will happen since you already are in ".", and if you type "cd somedir/././././././.", you will simply go to "somedir", since the "."-directories that come after it are the "same directory" as the one before them.
 * ".." - Refers to the directory in which the current directory is, or the "parent directory" in a path. If you type "cd .." you will come to the parent directory of your current directory, and if you type "cd s1/s2/s3/../../..", nothing will happen, since the path you specified cancels itself out.
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