I'm playing with our little home network, migrating some more functionality from windows to linux.
I want to backup files from a couple of machines onto an area on my main linux box and I'm interested in opinions on best custom and practice.
1. Is it advisable to have a separate partition for the file-store area or is a separate partition sufficient?
2. Where should it be in the directory tree on the 'server' - as a subdirectory of /home or as a separate directory under / or elsewhere?
3. Are there any standard conventions for this?
TIA Syd
Syd Hancock syd@toufol.com wrote:
- Is it advisable to have a separate partition for the file-store=20
area or is a separate partition sufficient?=20
I'd probably just use its own directory, unless you're using LVM, in which case partitions are cheap, so why not?
- Are there any standard conventions for this?
I'm not sure. Looking at the File Hierarchy Standard, linked from the http://www.linuxbase.org/ specification, should say if there is. I'd probably put it in /usr/local or /mnt, but what do I know?
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MJ Ray -
Syd Hancock