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#1 2009-12-20 05:13:00
- DWilliams
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What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
I recently migrated from Ubuntu to Arch and am loving it so far (although I have nothing bad to say about Ubuntu). I got almost everything set up how I want it, except all my music/movies/videos/etc. In Ubuntu I just put it all in my home folder but this isn't exactly an ideal solution because I want to make my home directory private, but I also want other users to be able to access the media. In addition, I will have a media server running to stream my media to my xbox.
I know I could just make some directory off / and call it good, but as I understand it that's considered bad practice. Short of creating a partition specifically for media, where in my filesystem should I put all this?
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#2 2009-12-20 05:15:49
- Allan
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Re: What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
/usr/share/media ?
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#3 2009-12-20 05:17:00
- DWilliams
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Re: What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
/usr/share/media ?
Oh, well that's nice and obvious haha
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#4 2009-12-20 05:52:56
- chpln
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Re: What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
If these are to be user-writable, I believe the only strictly FHS-compliant location is under /home.
/home is a fairly standard concept, but it is clearly a site-specific filesystem. The setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on this location.
In the past, my preference has been to /home/share, as it keeps the data within a user-writable hierarchy and uses (what is probably) a comparatively large partition.
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#5 2009-12-20 06:53:23
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Re: What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
I use /var/data. I think the FHS policy on /var is pretty loose 
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#6 2009-12-20 09:06:44
- PirateJonno
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Re: What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?
i would recommend something like /var/lib/music. lots of pseudo-home directory stuff goes in /var/lib anyway
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