On 3/30/06, Craig McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Now, I'm not a professional sysadmin, but since you are looking for a
"best practice" you could consult the man pages. hier(7) should have
all the info you need. In the distro I use, gentoo, it says (among
other things):
/mnt This directory contains mount points for temporarily mounted
filesystems
It looks like /mnt isn't meant for mounting filesystems on a permanent
basis (although that is where I mount them, whoops!)
Andrew J. Kopciuch said it well:
"Best practices would be whatever the admin is comfortable with I would say ..."
Just do whatever you feel comfortable with. After reading the hier(7)
page for my distro, and assuming you are using something like samba
and authenticating on a per-user basis, I think I would consider
mounting the drives under /home. (Depending, of course, on many
things such as whether or not you have / /home /var /tmp /usr in
different partitions.)
Just my $.02
-Mark
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