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by phireal 3285 days ago
Home directory is served over NFS (at work). Layout is as follows:

  phireal@pc ~$ ls -1
  Box/       - work nextcloud
  Cloud/     - personal nextcloud
  Code/      - source code I'm working on
  Data@      - data sources (I'm a scientist)
  Desktop/   - ...
  Documents/ - anything I've written (presentations, papers, reports)
  Local@     - symlink to my internal spinning hard drive and SSD
  Maildir/   - mutt Mail directory
  Models/    - I do hydrodynamic modelling, so this is where all that lives
  Remote/    - sshfs mounts, mostly
  Scratch/   - space for stuff I don't need to keep
  Software/  - installed software (models, utilities etc.)
At home, my main storage looks like:

  phireal@server store$ ls -1
  archive     - archived backups of old machines
  audiobooks  - audio books
  bin         - scripts, binaries, programs I've written/used
  books       - eBooks
  docs        - docs (personal, mostly)
  films       - films
  kids        - kids films
  misc        - mostly old images I keep but for no particular reason
  music       - music
  pictures    - photos, organised YYYY/MM-$month/YYYY-MM-DD
  radio       - podcasts and BBC radio episodes
  src         - source code for things I use
  tmp         - stuff that can be deleted and probably should
  tv_shows    - TV episodes, organised show/series #
  urbackup    - UrBackup storage directory
  web         - backups of websites
  work        - stuff related to work (software, data, outputs etc.)