Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 03:50:11 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "T. Michael Sommers" <tmsommers2@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where do user files go these days? Message-ID: <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:37:31 -0500, T. Michael Sommers wrote: > I've noticed that neither the instructions for partitioning a disk in > the handbook, nor hier(7), mention a /home partition. Is such a > partition still used? If not, where do user files go? It _can_ be used. Traditionally, /home is a symlink to /usr/home, so if you create partitions according to OS functionality, the users' data will be stored on the /usr partition. But you are completely free to create a dedicated /home partition - on the same disk or even on a different disk; if you put every- thing into one big partition, this will also work. The installer will automatically create the symlink as /home@ -> /usr/home for you. Just make sure that /home exists and is either the correct mount point or a symlink to the actual location (for example /home@ -> /export/home, where /export is the mountpoint for a "shared disk"). Basically, you can create _any_ partitions you like and add a mountpoint for them; /home is not an exception, it's just a "special case" as its presence is expected by many user-run programs. You can configure those things as you like. Here is an example (trimmed): % mount /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) /dev/ad4s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1g on /opt (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad6 on /home (ufs, local, soft-updates) Similarly, /home could have been /dev/ad4s1f, or even part of /dev/ads1e (which is /usr). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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