From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 1: 9:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay1.inwind.it (relay1.inwind.it [212.141.53.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC53A37B424 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 01:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.79.195) by relay1.inwind.it (5.1.046) id 39AFDC9900193C28; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:08:33 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:08:49 GMT Message-ID: <20000912.9084900@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: NFS mounting strategies (was RE: keeping up to date with FreeBSD) To: Joe Park Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D82EFC06BB9D311B0940090277C086CE80648@exchange.panbio.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/12/00, 2:24:58 AM, Joe Park wrote regarding RE: keeping up to date with FreeBSD: > Dear Salvo Bartolotta, > Thank you very much for your advise. Especially the question section at > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html answered all of my questions. > I did read that page, but not the question section. > Now, I have more questions for you (or anyone interested). What is proper > way and/or convention way to share "/usr" directory? Having a server with > one "/usr/src" "/usr/obj" "/usr/ports" directory, and having client machines > to mount on this set of directories obviously seems advantageous. What > other directories can be shared this way, and which directories should= stay > local? > Any suggestions? I think X windows should be local for obvious reason... > How about /usr/share? Maybe it doesn't worth going through this process to > save some disk space? Dear Joe Park, I am glad to hear you have solved your problem. Similar questions to yours have been asked before; in this connection, as a starter, the following links might be of interest: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D2090505+2093108+/usr/loca l/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000709.freebsd-questions http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D2314122+2318106+/usr/loca l/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000430.freebsd-questions http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1774383+1776846+/usr/loca l/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000702.freebsd-questions http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1915579+1918670+/usr/loca l/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000430.freebsd-questions http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D1720676+1727296+/usr/loca l/www/db/text/2000/freebsd-questions/20000604.freebsd-questions Some/parts of those letters contain information not directly relevant to your question; I have included them all the same in the hope that they may be useful. HTH a little, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message