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Re: [News] Linux Got the Directory/File Hierarchy Right

  • Subject: Re: [News] Linux Got the Directory/File Hierarchy Right
  • From: The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:12:41 -0800
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <1429256.DBdUBT73up@schestowitz.com> <gacpgn5gzhmg$.dlg@funkenbusch.com> <eolp24-jlq.ln1@dragon.myth> <104kal67kbmhk.dlg@funkenbusch.com>
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
<erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:59:47 -0600
<104kal67kbmhk.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:32:46 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
>
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>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:18:56 -0600,
>>  Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:00:59 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why is the linux file hierarchy better?
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| There are many articles around the web about the differences between
>>>>| the windows file hierarchy and the linux one. One thing they don't say
>>>>| is which one is better and why. My aim in this article is to show why
>>>>| the linux file hierarchy is a better model.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/why-is-the-linux-file-hierarchy-better-12916
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ylm2ek
>>>
>>> Gah, what a complete load of nonsense.
>>>
>>> "If you try to install it anywhere else you will have problems. This is
>>> because all windows programs assume that windows is in drive C and will
>>> barf if it is not."
>>>
>>> Complete and utter bogus, I've almost never had my windows directory on
>>> drive c.  Not even Windows 95 required this (though you did have to have
>>> msdos.sys and io.sys on c:)
>>>
>>> One thing that pisses me off with the linux filesystem is that there's no
>>> way to assign a label to a path.  Sure, you can create a symlink to ito
>>> somwhere, like your home directory, but you can't assign a global label.
>>> Windows has mappable drive letters, AmigaOS had labels, etc...
>> 
>> 
>> ln -s /LABEL /opt/path/to/wherever
>
> And then i can cd to that from anywhere, right? I can type "cd LABEL" from
> any folder on the computer and access that, or I can enumerate this in a
> drop-down list of a file dialog, right?
>
> The point of a label being global is that it makes it easy to access.

alias cdl cd /labelstorage/$1

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