opinion: mount point for a data partition

graysky · 2008-12-19 13:17:16

The major use of the PC in question is file storage/sharing (it runs samba shares) so I'm wondering about my partition scheme. I currently have my 750 Gb drive partitioned like this:

/root (10 gig)
/swap (2 gig)
/home (remaining 700+ gig)

I made a dir called /home/data and am sharing that. I'm wondering if although functionally, there isn't a difference, I'd be off using the following so I can just share out the entire /data partition. What do you guys think about this?

/root (10 gig and will include /home)
/swap (2 gig)
/data (remaining 700+ gig)

pyther · 2008-12-19 14:18:11

That'd work

You should be able change /home to /data in fstab, and move an home related files ("." dot files) from /data to /home/graysky

.:B:. · 2008-12-19 14:34:25

/var is a nice place to dump stuff like that in, I mount my data partition to /data, but I'm thinking about going with /var/data, which is more FHS-compliant.

fukawi2 · 2008-12-19 22:49:51

pyther wrote:

That'd work
You should be able change /home to /data in fstab, and move an home related files ("." dot files) from /data to /home/graysky

Or move your /home to /data/home

Then you get the best of both worlds
You can just symlink /home to /data/home and/or change all your users home directories to be in /data

usermod -d /data/home/USERNAME USERNAME

You could also bind mount /home/data to /data:

mount -o bind /home/data /data

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-12-19 22:50:29)

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opinion: mount point for a data partition

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