I like ext3. If you really want to share this big new drive, just mount it as /home. You can take the old home and make it your own private storage, after you copy everyone's home directory to the new drive.
If you want a place where people can all read and write the same files, you might look into groups and premissions, like this: http://aplawrence.com/Basics/perms.html "The "s" bit on the group set of a directory (e.g. rwxr-srx) causes new files created in that directory to have the same group ownership as the directory rather than the group id of the user or process creating the file." So you make your friends members of various project groups and give each project that group ownership. On the other hand, you might just want the archive for yourself. Here's how I did that for a nice little scsi drive: willhill at hesiod:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda1 /usr ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda2 /home/willhill/fast ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 willhill at hesiod:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 2.8G 2.3G 369M 87% / udev 253M 104K 253M 1% /dev devshm 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 3.7G 1.7G 1.8G 49% /usr /dev/hda3 16G 11G 4.0G 73% /home /dev/sda2 14G 8.3G 4.2G 67% /home/willhill/fast The directory /home/willhill/fast is owned by willhill and so is sda2 when the system mounts it. On Monday 26 March 2007 1:46 pm, Joe Fruchey wrote: > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in Linux, and > I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I mount it as a > subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if someone else wants to use > it? I thought about something like /var/storage, and I did that, but then I > had permission problems (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If I > tried to 777 it, it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it either. > I thought reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission issues, > but it did not. > > sudo chown joe /var/storage > operation not permitted. > > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1 > operation not permitted. > > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use? > > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using > mount for now.
