On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:10:01PM -0500, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roy Kidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having a seperate /home mount point is nice if you plan on enforcing > quotas on a shell server. Or sharing user directories via NFS or Samba, or (as mentioned elsewhere in thread) mounting /home noexec for security reasons, or any number of other goodies. > Having a seperate /var/www or /var/ftp is nice for a web or ftp server, > repsectively. Has anybody read the latest beta of FHS? Grab it at <http://www.samba.org/~cyeoh/fhs-2.3-beta.txt>. If I read it correctly, the new recommendation includes a new root subdirectory, '/srv', which contains the home directories for "users" which are actually daemons/services. Rather than /(home|var|chroot)/(www|ftp|dns|cvs|whatever) being scattered all over the filesystem, put them all in '/srv'. Much cleaner! Even if you don't want a separate partition for each service, putting /srv on its own partition could have notable benefits.
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