At 14:26 9/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >> At 13:20 9/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> What is recommended for a public, 'free-for-all', >> >> anyone can read or write directory on FreeBSD? >> >> >> >> What are the reasons for preferring one place >> >> over another? >> >> >> >> Would these work? >> >> >> >> /usr/local/share/sambapublic/ >> >> /usr/share/sambapublic/ >> >> /home/sambapublic/ >> > >> >I recommend a separate partition, so that when it eventually gets filled up >> >-- and these things always do -- your system will not be adversly affected. >> >You can mount the partition wherever you want. In your three examples, >> >"sambapublic" could be a file system mounted on /usr/local/share, >> >/usr/share, or /home. >> >> Thanks for the info. I just wanted to stick with the FreeBSD >> standard if there was one. >> >> How can I add a new partition? Can that be done after the OS >> and data are on the drive? What program? What would it be >> called? > >Not practical unless you install an additional hard drive. Sticking with >the drive you have, you would need to backup your data and reinstall >FreeBSD from scratch. The extra partition would be created using the >Disklable Editor, a sibling to / and /usr and /var and /home. > >That may be more work than you want to do right now.
Yes, now that I've got the OS and programs loaded. >In that case, if you >want to try it out, use either the home partition or the var partition. We >could probably spark a lively debate here as to which is better :-) > >Bottom line: go ahead and set up samba, to learn how it works. If you want >to use it in production (serious, bullit-proof) create that special partition. > >Gary Dunn >Honolulu Thanks for the info. I looked into this a little closer. In 'FreeBSD Unleashed', on page 38 it says: "/home This is where the users' home directories are located. It is often located under the /usr partition. If you are going to have a lot of users, and you expect them to have a lot of files, you might want to put /home on its own partition, or possibly even give /home an entire disk." In 'The Complete FreeBSD' (4th edition), on page 70: "Use the rest of the space on disk for a /home file system, as long as it's possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise, make multiple file systems. /home is the normal directory for user files." In the online handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html, Table 2-2: "/usr Rest of disk All your other files will typically be stored in /usr and its subdirectories." Alrighty, then. I am confused. On the 3 boxes that I just installed FreeBSD 4.9 on, none of them even have a /home or a /usr/home directory. So, there certainly isn't a /home partition. Is /home created as its own slice in 5.x? These boxes have 80 GB hard drives and have the majority of that capacity contained in /usr. Based on all this advice and research, I think I will create a new directory under /usr called /home. Under this, I'll create /samba/public (full path: /usr/home/samba/public). Any objections, or comments? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
