Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:40:27 +1100 From: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> To: "J.S." <johann@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personal hierarchy =?iso-8859-1?B?LS2g?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Are?= there any standards? Message-ID: <20011230114027.GA70217@roughtrade.net> In-Reply-To: <20011230120812.0a5a8c72.johann@broadpark.no> References: <20011230120812.0a5a8c72.johann@broadpark.no>
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:08:11PM +0100, J.S. wrote: > I keep re-organizing my files and directories continuously, and I never > feel satisfied with the way I structure them. I was hoping something > easy, abbreviated and well-organized, like the FreeBSD hierarchy, would > help me feel better about my personal stash. > > Or perhaps someone could show me how they have it? You are free to lay out your home directory however you like, in collaboration with those applications you're using that expect certain things in certain places (like, say, a .muttrc, or a kde ~/Desktop/ - and yes I know all these things are configurable) There are no standards. There is the default skeleton which is not much in terms of a live-and-kicking home directory. Personally I have a basic structure that is repeated across almost all logins across several platforms, which then varies locally. archive/ large downloads, snapshots, tarballs etc my personal "aladdins cave" of, well, stuff. bin/ personal executables doc/ documents downloaded or produced Mail/ maildirs and mboxes man/ personal manual pages src/ untarred/CVS'd source code directories tmp/ scratchpad directory web/<hostname>/ public content for http delivery web/logs/ log area for the above projects/ content-organized subdirectories for personal or professional projects. Under these I structure hierarchically using whatever seems most appropriate at the time, so that obviously related objects are in subdirectories together. I have found this sufficient organisation without getting too bogged down in filing. Generally the correct filename and location for an object are immediately apparent to me in this system. Larger objects, e.g. CVS repositories get their own slice and a symlink from my home directory. I get particular pleasure from browsing through older stuff in archive/ and picking up strands of thought from way back. I suspect this stuff is very personal and that my layout is not likely to suit others. But you did ask ;) Joshua To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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