Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:43:33 -1000 From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home Message-ID: <20120219164333.GA88489@holstein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <4F3F1817.7030009@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <20120217234623.cf7e169c.freebsd@edvax.de> <3D08D03C85ACFBB1ABCDC5DA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <4F3F1817.7030009@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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I vote for multiple partitions with user specified names (or at least
be able to change /home mount point to something else) & allocated
space.
in message <4F3F1817.7030009@herveybayaustralia.com.au>,
wrote Da Rock thusly...
>
> On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote:
> > --As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to
> > have said:
> >
> >> Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default
> >> with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_
> >> default style for separated partitions include:
> >>
> >> /
> >> swap
> >> /tmp
> >> /var
> >> /usr
> >> /home
I like having /var and/or /tmp to be separate from /, /usr, /home in
case it fills up or gets damaged. For me, they are not as much as
critical as the rest.
> >> In special cases, add /opt or /scratch as separate partitions
> >> with intendedly limited sizes.
> >>
> >> You can see that all user data is kept independently from
> >> the rest of the system. It can easily be switched over to
> >> a separate "home disk" if needed.
> >
> > --As for the rest, it is mine.
> >
> > I'm in agreement with you on that I like to have /home be a
> > separate partition, and not under /usr. (Of course, my current
> > zfs system has 40 partitions...) Partly though I recognize that
> > I like it because that's what I'm used to, and how I learned to
> > set it up originally. (My first unix experience was with
> > OpenBSD, over 10 years ago now.)
> >
> > I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having
> > /home under /usr though. I figure there must be a decent reason
> > why. Would anyone care to enlighten me? What are the perceived
> > advantages? (Particularly if you then make a symlink to /home.)
>
> But seriously, for the pedantic yes, but for a desktop user (at
> least) having home on /usr partition makes sense - balances space
> and functionality;
Give / + /usr a 1 or 2 GB for FreeBSD files; allot the rest to other
partitions.
> plus a lack of nodes on the disk for partitions? Limit was 8 I
> think. But now with /usr/home if you want to install from ports it
> can take a few gig, but that can be wasted because you're not
> always installing from ports, so might as well share space with
> the home directories and balance that way. Otherwise you'd need
> 30G (about) for /usr/ports and all the stuff you want to install
> and then that cannot be used at all for /home which could be
> cleared quite easily to make room if necessary if it was on the
> same partition.
# df -h | egrep -v 'devfs|proc' ; echo ; swapinfo ; echo ; \
# ll -d /{var,home,tmp} /usr/{ports,local,src,obj} ;
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s4a 2.9G 1.5G 1.2G 56% /
/dev/ad4s4d 989M 243M 667M 27% /var
/dev/ad4s4e 275G 172G 80G 68% /misc
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
/dev/ad4s2 1044288 0 1044288 0%
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Apr 2 2010 /home@ -> /misc/home
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Apr 2 2010 /tmp@ -> /var/tmp-root
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Apr 2 2010 /usr/local@ -> /misc/local
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Apr 2 2010 /usr/obj@ -> /misc/obj
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Apr 2 2010 /usr/ports@ -> /misc/ports
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Dec 6 20:35 /usr/src@ -> /misc/src
drwxr-xr-x 27 root wheel 512 Feb 18 13:11 /var/
(There is another partition, /toybox of 8.5 GB, currently not mounted,
to experiment with virtualbox.)
- parv
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