[GRASS5] grass database: where to put it

[juhana nieminen]

We've found that placement of large GRASS databases works rather nicely
in most of the places that you've mentioned below. 

Helena Mitasova wrote:
> 
> We have had some discussion about this with Markus but I am curious to
> hear from others:
> 
> Where do you put your GRASS database on your system (say you expect it
> to have 10-20GB)
> 
> here are some options that we have seen:
> 
> /usr/local/share/grassdata
> 
> /opt/grassdata
> 
> /usr2/grassdata
> 
> /data/grassdata
> 
> /home/paul/grassdata
> 
> Is there any reason why some of these options may be bad?
> Would it be different for a desktop at home and for a networked computer
> (e.g. under NFS)
> (assuming that at home there is a single user of that database and at
> work many people
> are using the database)
> Any other ideas what the "correct" place/partition should be for a big
> GRASS database?
> 
> thank you for any input,
> 
> Helena
> 
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