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terosaur 02-10-2007 03:53 PM
Where you mount public data folders?
 
Hello,

I come from a Windows background where I normally create and share a folder on another partition to host client data such as E:\Data.

What do Linux systems admins do? Do you create a folder on the root such as /data and mount the partition to that folder? Is there a standard most people follow?

Thanks!

gmartin 02-10-2007 05:38 PM
terosaur, just like Windows, every user/admin will do this differently. Some use /var, some create a new directory off /, etc. If you created a separate partition for this, maybe /data or /shared off the root might make sense.

Your choice.

terosaur 02-10-2007 10:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmartin
terosaur, just like Windows, every user/admin will do this differently. Some use /var, some create a new directory off /, etc. If you created a separate partition for this, maybe /data or /shared off the root might make sense.

Your choice.
I noticed that the FHS mentions a /srv folder that is meant for service data such as www, ftp, etc..

So if I'm setting up a Samba server, creating a /srv folder and then creating a sub-folder /srv/samba, then /srv/samba/data and then share out the data folder.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-...OVIDEDBYSYSTEM

Thanks for the response!


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