[svlug] RHL 5.2

[J C Lawrence]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:08:14 -0800 
Rick Moen<rick at hugin.imat.com> wrote:

> Nothing in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard even remotely
> suggests putting the system HTML tree under /home (or even
> mentions that tree, for that matter.)  The notion that it's the
> httpd "user's" home directory is pretty ridiculous.  (Does that
> "user" get a public_html subtree and mail spool, too?)

I like putting the HTML tree and the FTPd tree under /home for the
same reason I like to put user's home directories under /home: They
all have a tendency to grow uncontrollably and unpredictably.
Sticking them all under /home makes it easy to throw large
partitions at /home, and to later change or increase that allocation
without compromising your system partition assignment design.
Splitting them into seperate directory roots merely makes it
difficult to throw single suitably sized partitions at the problem
(now you have to have enough space under HTML-root _and_ under
FTPd-root _and_ under /home for unpredictable growth).

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