From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 4:17:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.broadpark.no (217-13-4-9.dd.nextgentel.com [217.13.4.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47B637B41A for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 04:17:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ninja.amphex.com (ninja.amphex.com [217.13.29.51]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 11C958040; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:17:34 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:17:33 +0100 From: J.S. To: Joshua Goodall Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Personal hierarchy -- Are there any standards? Message-Id: <20011230131733.50f90cb2.johann@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20011230114027.GA70217@roughtrade.net> References: <20011230120812.0a5a8c72.johann@broadpark.no> <20011230114027.GA70217@roughtrade.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, here's my new layout: drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:09 bin/ < Like yours drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:10 biz/ < Business-related drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:09 doc/ < Documents, all sorts drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:09 edu/ < Educational drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:10 etc/ < Scripts, configs drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:09 mp3/ < MP3 archive drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:09 src/ < Code drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:10 tmp/ < Temporary drwxr-xr-x 2 johann wheel 512 Dec 30 13:13 usr/ < Personal There we have it =) That is, unless somebody presents me with a better suggestion. I doubt it though. P'Z On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:40:27 +1100 Joshua Goodall wrote: > 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// 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message