Re: Relabel partition didn't work
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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).
>>
>> The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and
>> what they're used for.
>>
>> Almost the whole directory tree is under the auspisis of the FHS. If
>> you put a random directory within that tree, at some point there could
>> be conflict.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> If its files to be placed by users (a communal bookshelf), I would put
>> it under /home
>>
>> If its files to be placed by admin/root/whatever, to be read by users,
>> I would put it under /var/local
>>
>> In any event, I would _not_ put it as /store.
>
> Me? I put things on my stuff in:
>
> /exports/$sharename0
> $sharename1
> $sharename2
> $sharename3
> $sharename4
>
> Where the nfs, samba, shfs, afs, etc... share them all with a same name
>
> I guess I am non-FHS compliant that way. Though, I am consistent that
> way. It grew out of early problems complying with FHS years ago... its a
> bad habit, but a livable bad habit
What about /mnt or /media then? I thought they were good places to
mount other partitions. Doesn't that still fall under FHS compliance?
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