tomcat 5.5

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:05 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> > I have  been thinking about this too. I know it is common nowadays to
> > put /home on a separate partition to make it easier to preserve it during
> > a upgrade/reinstall. When you have to do a upgrade/reinstall you will
> > usualy want to preserve what is in /usr/local too. So I think it might be
> > a good idea to use /home/local if what is in there should be used by
> > different users 
> 
> I wouldn't do that.  Back when I had a fair amount of third party software,
> I had a /opt partition, and I'd do that if there was any likelihood of
> going that route again.  /home _should_ (according to the FHS) be for user
> data - don't confuse things by using it for applications. 

There are a number of ways of handling this situation.  I have even
configured servers with the Oracle Filesystem Standard where I created
filesystems named /u01, /u02, etc.  Home directories went in /u01/home.
Normally, I would automount it to /home, so home directories were
consistently named which is important if you use LDAP or some other
central authentication store.

On my notebook I have placed /usr/local onto /home/local, since I did
not create a separate /opt or /usr/local partition. It was convenient
and easy to maintain.

Whatever way it is done, just be consistent.
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