fhs: where to mount other PCs ?
Hello, According to fhs, where should I mount network shares, e.g. a share for data exchange within a company ? /mnt is for temporary use only, but I don't know a better place... cu Markus Grunwald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?
acctually you can mount them anywhere you want. i bet /mnt or /home . just dont mount them to /etc or /sbin or something, that would be too weird... On 9/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,According to fhs, where should I mount network shares, e.g. a share fordata exchange within a company ? /mnt is for temporary use only, but I don't know a better place...cuMarkus Grunwald--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- http://www.axeltabs.com/ http://roundhound.com/http://linuxarcher.net/bb/http://divx-subtitles.org/http://guitar-tabs-lyrics.com/ --
Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?
Hello, acctually you can mount them anywhere you want. i bet /mnt or /home . just dont mount them to /etc or /sbin or something, that would be too weird... I know I can mount everything where I want -- technically speaking. But the sense of the fhs (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html) is that things are a bit more standard so that people can easier switch between distributions and find things easier on fhs compliant systems. In my example, the fhs says, that the /mnt directory should be used only for temporary mounts by root. To mount a cdrom drive on /mnt/cdrom is bad according to the fhs - /media is the right place. So I want to find the right place for my exchange shares ... cu Markus Grunwald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, acctually you can mount them anywhere you want. i bet /mnt or /home . just dont mount them to /etc or /sbin or something, that would be too weird... the right place to mount media and other PCs over nfs is a pissing contest - root should NOT be mounting anything temporarily - automounters has its own mountpoints - users should be mounting things consistently, so that tom/dick and harry cn find where you mounted stuff /usr/local /var/spool/mail /var/www /home all can be mounted in its expected location or mounted anywhere else ( /mnt/local, /mnt/home, .. ) - add the additional mounting fun for mounting *.i386 binaries ( generic ) mounting *.i686 binaries ( p4 ) mounting *.amd binaries mounting *.emt-64 binaries mounting *.sun3 mounting *.sun4 ... ie use /usr/local.`uname -m` i mount everything under /mnt because ALL pcs is the same ... and anythign is considered local to the disk/PC itself and NOT mounted from anywhere else /mnt/floppy /mnt/dvd /mnt/cdrom /mnt/Win98 /mnt/Win2K ... and anything that is automounted is mounted under it's own /.autofs with symlinks to provide: /n/Win98 /n/Win2K /n/Mail /n/Web /n/home ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to fhs, where should I mount network shares, e.g. a share for data exchange within a company ? /mnt is for temporary use only, but I don't know a better place... Historically, I've always mounted them at /nfs/machine-name/whatever. The important point is to make the data appear at the same place on the serving machine as well (using symlinks), for portability. Looking at fhs, I'd guess the correct place is under /srv, so my vote would go for: /srv/machine-name/whatever or possibly /srv/nfs/machine-name/whatever Cheers, Dave BTW as regards media, fhs has this to say: /media : Mount point for removeable media Purpose This directory contains subdirectories which are used as mount points for removeable media such as floppy disks, cdroms and zip disks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
