Re: / /home on different partitions?

jean-daniel dodin wrote:
houghi wrote:

Well, all files, except shared data that is. And that is now a days one
of the most used types of data. When you ask people, the anwsers is "I
put it<some_dir> because I did not know where else to put it." and to
me that is strange.

may be because the way UNIX carries the share concept.

sharing data on unix/linux is usually a matter of creating a common
group amoung the people that need the share. Doing this one have to
think what place the share have to use (probably under /home/<group>)

And I would like to get rid of the 'propably'. Also with shared data, it
might not be just 'group' but a combination of groups.
Also a group name could interfere with a user name.
However /home/share might be an option, or /share or ...

in any professional system one don't want to share "to the world".

Note however than by default on openSUSE the ~ of any user (not the
directories under this) is world readable, so copying any file to your
~ is a way to share it

The fact that it is world readable is a lousy idea. Also other
distributions do not have it, so as a standard goes, that would not be a
good idea.

Also putting something in /home/houghi to share is a bad idea. Imagine
you have a company and I am the head of the project, so we place the
content of my project "MyProject" in /home/houghi/MyProject and I share
that with those that need it.

Next I am leaving the company. Standard should be to remove the user.
With all the people symlinking things you can't.
So it would be better to have a default, like /share or /home/share
where I can then place /share/MyProject or /home/share/MyProject

The ONLY thing I am talking about is a fixed place for the shared data,
like a fixed place for the users data, which is /home. What you later do
with it is up to you.

houghi
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