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When managing my own servers, I normally keep data such as svn repositories in /srv/svnrepo.

In the organization I currently a part of the SAs have been using /home/svnrepo.

My decision to standardize to /srv/svnrepo was based on my understanding of FHS. However, after looking on some subversion how-to's, it seems that many people use /home/ to store their svn repository.

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  1. What path are you using and why?
  2. Is there anything wrong with using /srv/? Does your understanding of FHS differe from mine?
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I'm partial to /var/ - seems like a reasonable place for 'variable' data that may be edited/accessed by multiple users. (A similar example might be /var/www - I don't see this as being much different). – cyberx86 Jan 4 at 3:34
I've always tried to keep /var/ for things that are transient like logs or PID locks. Always found /var/www completely contrary to FHS. – Beaming Mel-Bin Jan 4 at 3:49
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It depends on where /srv or /home is mounted. If /srv is mounted on a smaller / volume, for example, it might not be wise to put it there. Just make sure you put it on a volume with proper diskspace, performance and redundancy for your SVN servers needs.

I don't really follow FHS that much. On most of my systems I have OS/system drive on / on mirrored disks where all the /usr, /var, /home, /etc etc. is located and then I usually have one or more RAIDs mounted under/data1, /data2 etc.

So when I put SVN repositories on these systems I usually create it under /data1/svn.

And as always, make sure the volumes are included in any backup solution you have implemented.

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I usually put repos in /var/code or /var/svn. I figure it qualifies as "variable" data. /var is sometimes on a separate partition for files that change often, and it's backed up automatically on my machines.

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