An administrator is redesigning the company's storage layout so that every workstation mounts the users' home directories from a central NFS server. To confirm that this design is consistent with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), she reviews how the standard categorizes files according to the shareable-versus-unshareable and static-versus-variable matrix.
According to the FHS classification scheme, which description BEST fits the data that reside in /home?
Unshareable and static - the files rarely change and are intended to stay on the local system.
Shareable and variable - the files can be used by many hosts and change frequently during normal operation.
Unshareable and variable - the files change often but must remain unique to the local host.
Shareable and static - the files can be exported to other hosts but seldom change and could be mounted read-only.
The contents of /home are each user's personal files and configuration "dot" files. These files change whenever the user edits, saves, or deletes data, so they are variable rather than static. Because the exact same home directory can be exported and used on multiple hosts (for example, through NFS or another network file system), the data are considered shareable. The combination "shareable and variable" therefore matches both the way /home is normally used and the guidance given by the FHS.
The other options do not match the standard:
Shareable and static: user data are not static because they change routinely.
Unshareable and variable: nothing in the FHS requires /home to stay on the local host; it is explicitly listed as shareable.
Unshareable and static: this is the opposite of both properties for /home.
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