From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 04:00:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E61316A4CF for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:00:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6579D43FB1 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (wega.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.141]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAPC0JhP017447 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:00:25 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3FC34452.2050004@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:00:18 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; de-AT; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200311211736.hALHaLn20188@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <200311211923.11750.murphyf+fhs@f-m.fm> In-Reply-To: <200311211923.11750.murphyf+fhs@f-m.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:00:28 -0000 >>> Could you also explain to me why you think that /var would be such >>>a bad place for this? >>Well, I probably can't give a hard and fast absolute reason, but... >>We use /var as a place for directoreis/files that can grow somewhat >>unexpectedly and weakly controlled, such as spool and logs, etc. >>Because of that, our /var is most often put in some other large >>general filesystem with links and doesn't really live in either >>root (/) or isn't a root located filesystem, but just a directory in >>another filesystem such as /work (or in some recent ones /lump - I >>couldn't think of a better name). So, making it the home of mount >>points would be rather awkward. > Just because /var is a symlink to /lump/var shouldn't affect that. But if it's no symlink but a mount you run into trouble, if you want to remount /var (e.g. because out of disk space). So generally I would say this new directory you're looking for, should not be a subdirectory at all, especially if the parent directory is a frequently mounted one by itself. This would rule out /usr, /tmp, /var, /home at least. So better go for the /new_directory variant, IMHO. Ciao Siegbert