Re: Best location in filesystem to have a samba share

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From: Kevin Thorpe <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>   On 25/08/2010 03:03, David McGuffey wrote:
> > Everyone in the family  has a digital camera or cell phone and they seem
> > to be leaving picture  files all over their home folders, and laptops
> > with no sense of  year/month/day taken or what they are about.
> > Looking to  consolidate all the family pics in one location on a samba
> > share on the  primary workstation that happens to have 2TB of mirrored
> >  storage.
> There's lots of variations on this - as per usual Unix descended  systems 
> have a million
> ways to skin a cat.
> Personally I prefer  everything users side to be in one place so I put it 
> all in /home. I  even
> move mysql databases and such to there so I know that:
> /etc - is all  my configuration
> /home - is all my data
> / - is installation  stuff
> If you have a lot of servers then it helps keep things straight.  Besides 
> I try and use an old
> smaller drive as a system drive and a new  huge one as /home. If the box 
> dies all you have
> to do is grab /home and  stick it in another box without worrying what 
> you've left behind in
> /opt  or /var or /srv

Maybe have a look at:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

JD


      
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