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Re: Fstab Questions (Final time)

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On Monday, March 18, 2019 09:59:03 AM Dan Purgert wrote:
> rhkramer@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.)

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Fstab Questions (Final time) "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-17 12:50 +0100
  Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-03-17 13:40 +0100
  Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Charlie Kravetz <charlie@keepingdreams.com> - 2019-03-17 13:50 +0100
    Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 15:10 +0100
  Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2019-03-17 22:50 +0100
  Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-03-18 13:40 +0100
    Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-03-18 14:10 +0100
      Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-03-18 14:30 +0100
        Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-03-18 15:10 +0100
          Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-18 16:20 +0100
            Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-03-18 16:40 +0100
              Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-18 19:40 +0100
                Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-03-18 20:00 +0100
                Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-03-18 20:50 +0100
          Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-03-18 16:40 +0100
      Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-03-18 15:00 +0100
        Re: Fstab Questions (Final time) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-03-18 16:30 +0100

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