From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 18 02:17:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22CD0106566C for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:17:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6978FC0A for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3TqZcr6SZCzpf for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:17:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:16:34 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:17:50 -0000 --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. ---------------------------------------------------------------