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Re: dumb choice on partitioning



On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:21:10AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> when I installed debian on my harddrive, I choose to have most of the 
> free space allocated to my /home partition, since I'm using this as a 
> one-person workstation.
> 
> A couple of months down the line now, I am installing lots of java 
> development stuff but I realise that it's quite likely that I will 
> create more users too.
> 
> Where is the best place to put all the stuff I want to share?
> 
> According to standard linux filesystem layout, I should put it in 
> /usr/share. But I don't have much space on the / partition for gigs of 
> java stuff.
> 
> Shall I create a /home/share or is it really easy to partition off some 
> of the space from /home into a new partition without reinstalling?
> 
> And yes, I realise I could buy a new harddrive instead :O

Why not /home/java ? :-P /usr/share is for data shared by programs. For
data shared by users, I would just put it in /home/java, /export/java
or /data/java and export it by NFS.

Ionut

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