Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 09:11:20 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 36db6b04962a - main - hier(7): document /home/ and /usr/home/ Message-ID: <ZFyxOEJT7bhz4zHF@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4367FD0A-76AC-4E98-A133-E50D8CF841C7@karels.net> References: <202305101419.34AEJf1x054239@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <ba22a75d-06c0-371e-603e-7ded9d1dca97@freebsd.org> <20230510151313.9E7A6111@slippy.cwsent.com> <4367FD0A-76AC-4E98-A133-E50D8CF841C7@karels.net>
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On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 04:48:12PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > ... > I'm sure the kludge was originally done when root and /usr were separate > file systems by default, root was small, and there was no /home by default. I think that's the idea, yes. FWIW, I still partition my drives this way: 2~4GB root with big /usr and /home (the latter lives on separate partition because it's encrypted). For non-encrypted setup, /home does not have to be a separate partition and can be a symlink to `usr/home'. I actually don't find this inconvenient or particularly kludgy. Surely it's nice to be able to encrypt one's data, but it's also nice not having to worry if you'd suddenly get ENOSPC while there's still plenty of room on adjacent partition. > However, we now default to a single large file system (with datasets, in > the ZFS case). ZFS makes it all easier of course, but at its present state is not usable on 13+, so I'm confined to UFS until ZoL guys can fix their sh^code. :( ./danfe
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