Newbie: Correct directory for file server

[Scott W]

Tom Munro Glass wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
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>>On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote:
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>>>On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored
>>>in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that
>>>are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public
>>>or /usr/local/public or even /var/public?
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>>>Thanks,
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>>There is no default. You can choice your own directory. Placing this in
>>the /usr slice or on a second disk seems reasable. /var wouldn't be
>>advisable.
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>I guessed there isn't a default, but I thought there might be a convention for 
>this and I want to follow conventions where ever possible.
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>Tom Munro Glass
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Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system 
only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and 
create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo

If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export 
directory and put it similarly in there, which has the convenience as 
you change your filesystems (and you will...) and perhaps share more 
directories, or add more disk, you can keep them 'centrally' located (or 
mounted) under a single top level directory..  Unless your /var 
filesystem is _huge_ (or on the same filesystem as /, ick!), I wouldn't 
put anything to be shared in the /var tree...(as already mentioned).  
Likewise, /usr is meant to be capable of being mounted read-only, and 
contains (generally) static binaries and libraries required for full 
multi-user (read this as networked) mode operation of the system, so I'd 
abstain from using /usr either.

Scott