On Monday, March 18, 2019 09:59:03 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I (some time ago) read the FHS more than once, and had some input into > > changing some portions of it (related to /home -- my intent was to allow > > <user> owned files to be either in /home/<user> or in some other, > > arbitrarily named, top level directory chosen by the user. > > So, you'd move their home directory then? Or do you mean to say that > > $HOME -> /home/username (as is usually done) > $FILES -> /somewhere (some new directory for them to throw stuff) Hmm, I guess (maybe) in your terms, I use the latter -- I maintain (that is, keep) /home/<username>, but I use it for configuration type information -- the stuff that is often in . (hidden) files or directories. For what I consider my real user data (movies, documents, MIDI files, ...), I create new top level directories (with appropriate subdirectories under them. The top level is usually named something like /<username> or /<username><nn> (for the 2nd and beyond), and then subdirectories like /<username>/Documents, /<username>/music. To the extent possible, I try to change the configuration of any program that I use so that if I save a program from those files, they go to an appropriate subdirectory under /<username> by default or display a dialog to let me choose the location. Currently, I think the only program that I haven't managed to get to do that is the Firefox in Jessie. (No problem with Firefox in Wheezy, and I haven't yet set up anything beyond jessie.)
