On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 10:09:42AM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > - exactly what services go in /srv? everything which is in /var now? No. Things which do not belong in /var. Var is for transient variable data. User-edited documents should live there. And neither should config files or executable programs. > - add another unclear partition (/srv) to decision making on > partitioning Anyone running a serious server probably wants this stuff on its own partition or partitions anyway. Anyone not, probably doesn't. Easy. > - there are a lot of books/howtos which reference /var. Many people are > migrating to linux now. They read those, find it's different in reality, > confusing. Lots of books reference all sorts of weird and bad things. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>