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Cc: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net>, Lars Eighner <lars@larseighner.com>
Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?)
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Hi,

On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote:
> 
> > 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.)
> 
> There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical - trying

when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has had several 5MB hard disks.

I assume that what now is called partitioning came from the need to have several disks to run a serious system.

And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 users on several 5MB disks.

Erich