There is no 'correct' place... But what I tend to do is.. Keep home drive stuff (and samba 'personal' drives) under /home.
Put all other data under /data ... So in /data on my server here for example I've got: drwxr-x--- 4 chrish users 8192 Jul 16 10:29 divx drwxrws--- 33 chrish files 8192 Aug 21 23:57 files drwxrws--- 62 chrish music 8192 Jul 16 10:33 mp3 drwxrws--- 37 apache www 4096 Aug 26 17:22 www drwxrws--- 12 postfix mail 4096 Jan 18 12:42 mail divx and mp3 are sorta obvious :-).. files is all 'file' data, documents, spreadsheets, pictures etc, www is the html root for apache, and mail is where my imap data lives.. Each of the directories is a separate partition/drive I do this so that for data backups I just backup /data, and /home. I do however exclude some stuff from the general data backup in my case, like /data/mp3 & divx, along with my iso's directory, and some other large but not critical stuff I've got on CDR's.. Cheers, Chris H. On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:01, Nick Rout wrote: > I am about to buld a new server for the office. > > My present server has data all over the show. >
