On Monday, March 18, 2019 08:56:20 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > I'm bad with the FHS, but shouldn't say your shark-attack movies be > somewhere in /usr(/local) ?
I'd say no -- if they were shark attack programs, /usr/local could be appropriate. (/usr/local is for local programs) If they are files (movies, documents, MIDI files, ....), they should be either in /home/<user> ... (keep reading) > maybe /srv if you're running a media > server? I've had some input into the FHS -- read more below -- but I don't remember offhand about /srv -- I vaguely think that is ok, but keep reading ... > > Or is there some caveat that allows for mounting new partitions into > the root directory, while remaining "FHS compliant"? I (some time ago) read the FHS more than once, and had some input into changing some portions of it (related to /home -- my intent was to allow <user> owned files to be either in /home/<user> or in some other, arbitrarily named, top level directory chosen by the user. I do this all the time, and I believe I am in compliance with the FHS. If anyone (who is familiar with the FHS) believes different, I'd like to know, and I would then attempt to amend the FHS appropriately.
