Sharing folder inside mnt

[gardenair]

hi,
In my Ubuntu box i make a new partition i.e "mysahre" mount it as for sharing files .Previously I make a folder in root and then access it.


# mkdir home-share

assign the group


# chown -R root:pdc /home-share

and then assign rights



# chmod -R 757 home-sare


Now I create the folder "home-share" inside /mnt


# mkdir /mnt/home-share
# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/home-share

the question is should I also give group ownership and permission to " mnt" folder to access "/home-share" i.e "/mnt/home-share"


# chown -R root:pdc /mnt/home-share
# chmod -R 757 /mnt/home-sare

Please guide me,technically what is the correct way

thanks

[SeijiSensei]

/mnt has read and execute permissions for everyone. You don't need to change it at all.


$ ls -l / | grep mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 10 2014 mnt

[gardenair]

Thanks "SeijiSensei" for your reply.Well my query is should I mount the partition name (which is my share folder i.e office-share) inside /mnt folder. Actually normally i keep the share folder in "/ " .

I am going to take a example.Suppose you are configuring samba server and create a share folder "office-share " ,it is good to keep this folder in " /mnt " or you keep keep it in " / ".
Technically and professionally which is the correct way ?

[Bucky Ball]

In my opinion best to avoid keeping ANY personal data in /. If the OS breaks and you need to reinstall your data is on the partition you may not be able to access. Also makes backing up more straightforward (and if you have more than one OS installed it makes even more sense as you don't want to be accessing your data files from the root partition of another installed OS).

Generally best to have a /home partition and keep personal data there or just use a /data partition and symlink to folders in there. The latter is ideal if you have more than one OS. They can all be symlinked to the same directories in the /data partition. No confusion, no doubling up, no redundancy.

[gardenair]

Thanks "Bucky Ball" for your reply.I have only single operating system .As you have mentioned that if the OS crash then i can not access ,For that purpose I keep the personal data in a separate partition. Well from scratch i want to draw your attention. I have install Ubuntu,keep free space.I use fdisk command and create a new partition i.e "home-sahre" i.e 140 GB for sharing files and folder for the users.


# fdisk -l




Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 616447 307200 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 616448 82536447 40960000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 82536448 143976447 30720000 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 143976448 625141759 240582656 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 143978496 160362495 8192000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 160364544 453965823 146800640 83 Linux

I mount it


# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/home-share


Now you can see my mounted partition.

# df -h
/dev/sda6 140G 33M 140G 1% /mnt/home-share



Now when i share the folder "home-share" the user will keep their files in that separate partition which is in my case "/dev/sda6".

Even If I use /home-share the user will keep his/her files in that separate partition (if i am correct) so why I make a symbolic link ?

In Samba configuration file .


[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home-share <-----------This is the symbolic link.The actual folder is located in /mnt/home-share
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = +staff


Please let me know that in the "path" is it correct to give symbolic link in the path.

[SeijiSensei]

Just use the full path:

path = /mnt/home-share