On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >> This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS.
> >> (see man hier and the debian policy manual).
> >>
> >> There are four places within the directory tree you could place your
> >> /store and be out of the way of the debian system:
> >>
> >>    /home/store
> >>            assuming you never create a user named 'store'
> >>
> >>    /usr/local/share/store
> >>            since ISOs are basically static, its similar to
> >>            putting a document under /usr/local/share/doc
> >>
> >>    /var/local/store
> >>            If you are frequently adding and removing files from
> >>            store, it should go under /var (variable) since the
> >>              idea of /usr is that it _can_ be mounted read-only.
> >>
 
> What about /mnt or /media then?  I thought they were good places to
> mount other partitions.  Doesn't that still fall under FHS compliance?

True, however the OP doesn't want to _mount_ an iso image, he wants to
_store_ iso images.  I think its like a communal book-shelf presumably
with different backup requirements than regular stuff under /home.

Doug.


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