Adivce on Partitions

[Scott]

On 06/01/2006 01:18 PM, * Andy Anderson spake thusly:
> [.....]
> 
> I'd probably use /music.

While we're on the subject, I'd contemplated doing something similar a
number of years ago (it was either on SUSE or Mandrake I don't recall
which) and made an inquiry about doing so to a mailing list.

Several people implied that this was a "major no-no". That one never
creates directories just below /.  One can only have directories there
that are created by the OS.

So creating "/music" would cause the the polar ice caps to melt 7
simultaneous earthquakes around the world and major worldwide power outages.

Frankly I can't possibly imagine what difference it makes.

I'm in a similar dilemma right now.

I'd like to do nightly backups of ~/ via a cron job, but I don't want to
include ~/Downloads ~/Audio or ~/Video as these are huge directories.
But  I've not figured out how to exclude them from a backup and include
everything else in ~/ (including hidden files/directories).

So the only solution I've been able to come up with is to move the above
mentioned subdirectories to /.

But again, I've goatherd that could somehow present problems?

The only problem I can see is that initially the directories would only
have root permissions, but that's easily remedied.  None of the other
standard system directories would be touched in this instance.

So, does my idea make sense or does someone know how I could easily back
up ~/ via a cron job while excluding ~/Audio ~/Video and ~/Downloads?

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	Scott
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