Re: Relabel partition didn't work
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>> Greg Folkert wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>>> This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS.
>>>> (see man hier and the debian policy manual).
>>>>
>>>> There are four places within the directory tree you could place your
>>>> /store and be out of the way of the debian system:
>>>>
>>>> /home/store
>>>> assuming you never create a user named 'store'
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/share/store
>>>> since ISOs are basically static, its similar to
>>>> putting a document under /usr/local/share/doc
>>>>
>>>> /var/local/store
>>>> If you are frequently adding and removing files from
>>>> store, it should go under /var (variable) since the
>>>> idea of /usr is that it _can_ be mounted read-only.
>>>>
>
>> What about /mnt or /media then? I thought they were good places to
>> mount other partitions. Doesn't that still fall under FHS compliance?
>
> True, however the OP doesn't want to _mount_ an iso image, he wants to
> _store_ iso images. I think its like a communal book-shelf presumably
> with different backup requirements than regular stuff under /home.
>
> Doug.
>
>
Better than my other reply:
It seems that many guides say to put your windows partition in
/mnt/windows or /media/windows. That would suggest to me that that is
the place where other file systems go. That's where my question stems
from as to why /mnt and /media are not good places.
Joe
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