I published this last year so this is so important I decided to turn it into a TECH TIP and expand on it a little.
When building a Linux system I use a separate physical drive which I have installed my software into. I never, well almost never have to reload eclipse and other major software that is put into my /home/harrison directory.
I have a second physical drive that I have mounted at /mnt/MyData on this drive I have a few top-level directories. I will talk for a minute about both. the first is public
| File System | It holds |
|---|---|
| /mnt/MyData/home | This directory holds all account home directories |
| mnt/MyData/home/harrison | This is MY HOME directory |
| /mnt/MyData/public | This directory has a bunch of directories in it and is shared via NFS |
| /mnt/MyData/export | is my website backups as the server root is /export/home/<project name>public_html/... |
| /mnt/MyData/ISO | This is my online repo for all of the distros that I use or have used. |
| /mnt/TV/1 | This is my Movie Backup (lots) |
| mnt/TV/2 | This is my TV Series Backup. (lots) |
So now I have to make this my real home directory.
harrison@whirlwind:~$ su
root@whirlwind:# mv home _home
root@whirlwind:# ln -s /mnt/MyData/export/home home
