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