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:
I'd probably just use its own directory, unless you're using LVM, in which case partitions are cheap, so why not?
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