Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Floppies - Actual Question Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 09:02:09 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <20251008090209.0000634b@gmail.com> References: <10b00db$3f68s$1@dont-email.me> <68d800e1$0$16840$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <68d865c6$0$12927$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10b9vcf$21uoj$2@dont-email.me> <68d90c1b$0$11422$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <8m9qqlxbmq.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <68e0ec5e$0$24813$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <10bre3q$2hofe$2@dont-email.me> <10bs566$2o6go$1@dont-email.me> <10c2kj9$rat5$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2435ee5a2c089de73cdbd61adc3b3944"; logging-data="1750955"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1943ehni2ZMAIL+CcSyK5bSBuHwBnscTw0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:HDxPA4X4LqP7hps42Tx9od07eMI= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:75800 On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 09:56:08 +0100 Pancho wrote: > I'm questioning if it is best to follow that intention, or to instead > create my own data area. Personally, I've long been in the habit of making a separate partition for large-scale local storage (do have a home fileserver, but that only gets you anywhere when you're on the home network.) /home is fine for config files, one-off working documents, and unsorted downloads, but it quickly gets cluttered if I store *everything* there. Having a separate partition with a (vaguely) well-organized directory structure for media/ documents/larger-scale project files makes it a lot easier to find stuff later, without having to resort to some kind of indexing/search utility.