On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:21:10AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Hi there, > > when I installed debian on my harddrive, I choose to have most of the > free space allocated to my /home partition, since I'm using this as a > one-person workstation. > > A couple of months down the line now, I am installing lots of java > development stuff but I realise that it's quite likely that I will > create more users too. > > Where is the best place to put all the stuff I want to share? > > According to standard linux filesystem layout, I should put it in > /usr/share. But I don't have much space on the / partition for gigs of > java stuff. > > Shall I create a /home/share or is it really easy to partition off some > of the space from /home into a new partition without reinstalling? > > And yes, I realise I could buy a new harddrive instead :O
Why not /home/java ? :-P /usr/share is for data shared by programs. For data shared by users, I would just put it in /home/java, /export/java or /data/java and export it by NFS. Ionut
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