On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:50:46AM -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote: > In the endless pursuit of upgrading this machine I have added a hard > drive to my computer. I have used fdisk to create a linux partition to > the whole disk. I made the disk use the ext3 file system. > > So now for fstab. What is the philosophy for creating an entry? At > this point I'm not sure what the mount point should be. /home sounds
I generally mount additional "disks" for data storage as /data/n/. Simple, clean, easy to understand & maintain. These days, for production servers, my typical partitioning is: /boot / /tmp /var /opt (if I'm going to install much 3rd party software that will use it) /data /home and /usr/local are symlinks into /data, as is /opt if I haven't given it a separate partition. If additional data "disks" are needed, I either use LVM to add space to /data, or mount the additional volumes as /data/1/, /data/2/, etc. Ocassionally (usually for Oracle servers) I will create other application-specific filesystems, but it is getting more and more rare as app developers gain clue. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP KeyID 0x57C3430B Holder of Past Knowledge CS, O- "Would you rather me stick it in your chicken?" Richard Jerrell _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/