Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:16:34 -0500 From: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?) Message-ID: <3D08D03C85ACFBB1ABCDC5DA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20120217234623.cf7e169c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <20120217234623.cf7e169c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--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 > > 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.) Just a question that's been bugging me, as I read through different FreeBSD docs. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------
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