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  • From: "Eric D. Schabell M.Sc." <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [fhs-discuss] Informal Straw Poll for /srv and /media
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:06:51 +0100

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Howdy all,

> /srv:
> This directory should be the default data directory for server programs
> (httpd, ftpd, ...). Packages installed by the distribution should put
> their demo data or basic skeleton data in the respective subdirectory of
> /srv (/srv/www, /srv/ftp). Nothing that exists there that the user has
> changed should be overwritten.
>
No, not in our base install, whatever you do after that is your problem.

>
> To start our discussion about it, i like the idea of /srv and am not
> sure about /media. /srv seems like a good idea, allowing the admin to
> have a seperate partition for all server data, making it easy to find
> the data after first install and having a standard place for all server
> type spells to put their data.
> About /media and /mnt, i prefer /mnt/cdrom, for the simple reason that
> i've always used this (and tab completion will be harder if two
> directories in / start with 'm').
>
Also no, same as above.

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