On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 16:37, Julian Opificius wrote: > Thanks for the input, Civileme. > > Where would I put the public access directory? Under /home, say > /home/public, or is there some other traditional place? > If I do this, presumably I could put /home on a separate /dev/hda'n' > partition, or, if Santa brings me the new 80G HD I asked for, make it > /dev/hdb. Is this reasonable thinking? > > j. > ==================== > At 04:28 PM 12/21/01 -0900, you wrote: > >On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:42, Julian Opificius wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me the "standard" places to put files? > > > > > > Specifically :- > > > > > > On a multi-user workstation I would obvious use /home/<accountname> for > > > personal stuff. > > > > > > If I set up my LM box as a server, accessible by a couple of Windows > > > network clients, with some general directories, at what mount point would > > > the tree start, and is there a standard top level name for it? > > > > > > Fairly logically I would create a separate partition for the stuff > > tree, or > > > a separate drive even better, right? > > > > > > Recommendations happily accepted. > > > > > > Julian. > > > > > > > > >
Yes, it is and a separate /home partition is a very good policy, because your settings are almost all preserved when the next edition comes along and you find that the Update facility doesn't do much with old soft links and causes problems--usually with /usr/local and /home on separate partitions, the best update is install without formatting those partitions. Civileme
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