[CentOS] Best location in filesystem to have a samba share
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 26 09:01:09 UTC 2010
From: Kevin Thorpe <kevin at pibenchmark.com>
> 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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