The leap of faith

[tyreth]

I've been using Linux for years, and the last year or 2 I've been using it easily 99% of the time I spend on the computer. The only reason I kept windows was for games.

Recently however I installed gentoo on my younger cousin's computer, who plays games more often than me. He was more excited to try out winex.

I was impressed with what I saw. Warcraft 3 runs close to windows speed, Counterstrike does too. I already have Quake 3 and will have NWN. So I have enough games.

So I decided today that I'd remove windows once and for all, and use my 40gig hard disk for purely Linux. I'd keep my original 2gig C: disk as a blank, so I can temporarily install other distro's or OS's temporarily when I feel like experimenting without losing something I have. I'll have my windows d: (25gig) as my /home dir now, and keep the 10gig disk for the rest of the partition - software, etc.

So I was wondering, where am I going to keep all my music and movies? I don't want them in my personal home directory, because I want them accessable to other users on my system. So I was thinking I'd add a music group and a movies group. I'd give everyone read access to the directories they are in, and a few select people write access also by adding them to that group. But where do I put them? How do you guys structure your gentoo system? /home/share/music, or /home/music, /usr/local/share/music, /usr/share/music, /usr/local/music, or something else?

What's a good structure for these sorts of large data deposits? At the moment games are put into /usr/local/games but I don't like that, it's too deep. What about /home/games?

I'd love to hear people's thoughts.

[pjp]

I just made the mount point /music, and mount an 80G drive under that. Well, a portion of it. Need to redo the drive layout.
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