On Thursday 30 March 2006 19:34, Craig McLean wrote: > Hello all. > > It's been awhile since I've posted, however I have a question which I'd > like to submit to the clug hive mind. I'm setting up plain old file and > print server. I've installed SUSE 10 onto a system drive, which I > partioned for log growth and all the usual safety stuff. However I have > two 300GB drives that I've mirrored, and will be using as the network > shared storage. My question is where is the UNIX place to mount this file > system. Should I create a new directory at the root of the tree. Should I > create a directory in mnt. Is there some other place where something like > this should go. > > I'm looking for UNIX best practices. >
Typically I place file shares somewhere underneath the /var directory. It's variable data, so that's where I place it. /var/fileserver/foo, /var/fileserver/bar etc. I take it you have these mirrored drives as slaves in the system, ie. they are not partitioned as part of the operating system. Typically I would think you would mount them somewhere underneath /mnt like /mnt/storage. There is nothing to stop you from placing a symlink to that underneath /var as well. Best practices would be whatever the admin is comfortable with I would say ... It's not my box, so it doesn't really matter to me ;-) There's lots of acceptable ways to do this. Others will have suggestions too, pick one you like an run with it. Andy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
