Re: Fstab Questions (Final time)

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

On Monday, March 18, 2019 08:56:20 AM Dan Purgert wrote:
> I'm bad with the FHS, but shouldn't say your shark-attack movies be
> somewhere in /usr(/local) ?  

I'd say no -- if they were shark attack programs, /usr/local could be 
appropriate.  (/usr/local is for local programs)

If they are files (movies, documents, MIDI files, ....), they should be either 
in /home/<user> ... (keep reading)

> maybe /srv if you're running a media
> server?

I've had some input into the FHS -- read more below -- but I don't remember 
offhand about /srv -- I vaguely think that is ok, but keep reading ...

> 
> Or is there some caveat that allows for mounting new partitions into
> the root directory, while remaining "FHS compliant"?

I (some time ago) read the FHS more than once, and had some input into 
changing some portions of it (related to /home -- my intent was to allow 
<user> owned files to be either in /home/<user> or in some other, arbitrarily 
named, top level directory chosen by the user.

I do this all the time, and I believe I am in compliance with the FHS.

If anyone (who is familiar with the FHS) believes different, I'd like to know, 
and I would then attempt to amend the FHS appropriately.