Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Jochen: I put such files under /srv/files. /srv is meant for service-specific files, e.g. /srv/www, /srv/imap etc. The naming below /srv is up to you, though. Why www under /srv? - If it was always in /var? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Jordon: As far shared videos that's a tough one, I'm wondering if you couldn't put them under /usr/share since it is static. Is it a good place to store my documents sharing w/ others? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 31 aug 10, 15:36:06, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jordon: As far shared videos that's a tough one, I'm wondering if you couldn't put them under /usr/share since it is static. Is it a good place to store my documents sharing w/ others? IMHO no, because:

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sthu Deus: Jochen: I put such files under /srv/files. /srv is meant for service-specific files, e.g. /srv/www, /srv/imap etc. The naming below /srv is up to you, though. Why www under /srv? - If it was always in /var? Well, to quote the FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html):

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Jordon Bedwell on 2010-08-30 07:10:33, in Message-Id 4c7b9fb9.6080...@envygeeks.com I'm wondering if you couldn't put them under /usr/share since it is static. /usr/local/share ya mean? /usr/share, in my reading of FHS, seems to be mainly used for distributions to place their data. As

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-31 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 08/30/2010 04:02 PM, Brian Ryans wrote: Quoting Jordon Bedwell on 2010-08-30 07:10:33, in Message-Id 4c7b9fb9.6080...@envygeeks.com I'm wondering if you couldn't put them under /usr/share since it is static. /usr/local/share ya mean? /usr/share, in my reading of FHS, seems to be

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja: /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a better place. What kind of data do you have here? Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for all the users, say movies, music, etc? I'm not speaking

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sthu Deus: Wolodja: /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a better place. What kind of data do you have here? Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for all the users, say movies, music, etc? I put such files under /srv/files.

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-08-30 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On 8/30/2010 6:18 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja: /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a better place. What kind of data do you have here? Sorry for long absence here. Where would You put something common for all the users,

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 30 July 2010 04:01:10 Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Yet, do You know a guide or something that explains the *Debian* FS structure: which dir. is for what. Having separated programs from data w/ diver partitions, I have put the following /home /pub /var on a single partition

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:23:25 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:18:33AM +, Camale�n wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:01:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Yet, do You know a guide or something that explains the *Debian* FS structure: which dir. is for what. (...) I've

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 31 July 2010 10:38:28 Camaleón wrote: He will never buy the last two links. They don't say they are the Official Debian Way. Why not? As long as Debian sticks to FSH 2.3 (with the exceptions mentioned in the first link from Debian Policy Manual) I think the last two links full

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:56:12 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 10:38:28 Camaleón wrote: He will never buy the last two links. They don't say they are the Official Debian Way. Why not? As long as Debian sticks to FSH 2.3 (with the exceptions mentioned in the first link from

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 31. 07. 2010 11:37:27 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): /var should be a filesystem that fully support POSIX locking semantics, which may mean not NFS. Interesting. Makes me wonder how can this requirement be met when setting up diskless Debian clients (PXE boot over NFS)? --

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 10:38:28 Camaleón wrote: He will never buy the last two links. They don't say they are the Official Debian Way. Why not? As long as Debian sticks to FSH 2.3 (with the exceptions mentioned in the first link

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 31 July 2010 18:21:14 Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 10:38:28 Camaleón wrote: He will never buy the last two links. They don't say they are the Official Debian Way. Why not? As long as Debian sticks

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 10:16:50 Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 07. 2010 11:37:27 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): /var should be a filesystem that fully support POSIX locking semantics, which may mean not NFS. Interesting. Makes me wonder how can this requirement be met when setting up

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 04:37:27 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: For a multi-user system, all user-writable locations should be separate file systems from system file systems. At the least, /var/tmp, /tmp, and /home should be separate file systems. /dev/shm may be user writable, but in modern

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-31 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:12:17PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 31 July 2010 18:21:14 Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:56:12AM +0100, Lisi wrote: Not *completely* humorous. The OP seems obsessed with Officialness and Debianness to an inordinate degree. (Look Ma, I made

Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. Yet, do You know a guide or something that explains the *Debian* FS structure: which dir. is for what. Having separated programs from data w/ diver partitions, I have put the following /home /pub /var on a single partition. All is working well, except I want to be as close to Debian

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:01:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Yet, do You know a guide or something that explains the *Debian* FS structure: which dir. is for what. (...) I've found this: *** Debian Policy Manual Chapter 9 - The Operating System 9.1 File system hierarchy 9.1.1 File System Structure

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 16:01 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Having separated programs from data w/ diver partitions, I have put the following /home /pub /var /pub -- this is not part of the FHS and you might want to search for a better place. What kind of data do you have here? Judging from

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:18:33AM +, Camale�n wrote: On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:01:10 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Yet, do You know a guide or something that explains the *Debian* FS structure: which dir. is for what. (...) I've found this: *** Debian Policy Manual Chapter 9

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread francis southern
Is it my imagination or has no one mentioned 'man hier'? I suppose it's not the most detailed account, but it's got a nice overview and a link to the Filesystem Hierarchy standard; I was happy when I found it. Francis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a