file system setup for new system - recommendations?

[David Kelly]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Darren Crotchett wrote:

> The other directory that tends to grow is /usr.  This is where all of
> your /home, /www and /ports directories are.  In other words, you put 
> alot of
> stuff in /usr.  I never put anything in /root.  So, once the system is 
> built
> it is nearly 100% static.

What I have suggested is that one move /home to its own filesystem out 
of /usr so that user data is not intermingled with OS and utilities.

Uh, you know /root/ is the superuser's home directory and not the same 
thing as "the root directory '/'", right?  :-)

/root/ is not a bad place to put a few little things such as a list of 
critical files to feed to "tar -cI" to backup one's specific 
configuration. /root/ *is* on the / partition so you don't want to put 
much there.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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