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