On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 18:32, Craig wrote: > Nick Pierpoint wrote: > > > > I'm creating a central repository of music and pictures that I'll make > > available over a wireless network within my home. > > > > Predictably enough, instead of starting with a sensible practical issue, > > the issue that's really getting to me is under what directory structure > > to keep the repository? > > > > Basically trying to follow FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs): > > </snip> > > Currently its all under /opt/media so you'll understand my predicament. </snip> > In my judgment, I believe you've done a bit of "over thinking" in this case. Over-thinking is my middle name. > Although I would agree that on > a single, non-networked computer I would agree that the /usr/share/<multimedia> or other dir name would be > appropriate if we are talking about the location of user-shared that are not app/environment-related (which > would include backgrounds, themes, etc.). However, in this case, I would suggest that this is actually a > network share (nfs). If you have room for a separate partition, I would suggest you make such a partition > for these files and mount it under the /mnt (/mnt/pub is what I would do) dir. I use an external network > drive mounted directly to the network (nfs share) and have a /pub sym link for convenience. As I stated at > the beginning, I don't think this is relevant. These files don't fall under the category of > app/environment-related stuff, ergo FHS doesn't really care about their location. If you have a separate > /home partition (which is the least you should have), putting such files under the /home dir (/home/pub) > makes just as much sense as anything else IMHO. I don't know. FHS seems to care about more than system and app related files. Certainly should care if it doesn't - no point having a beautifully laid out hierarchy if users just bung everything else in "/". /mnt would seem to be ok if I was mounting a something from another server, but I'm talking about the server that's hosting these files. I think /srv is appropriate as the files would be served as a multimedia service in the same way that web pages (/srv/http) would be served as a web server. I think maybe /srv/mm to be suitable obtuse. Nothing quite so crass as "My Pictures" ;-) -- nick
