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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:43:44 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        pruiter@indigored.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/home on separate disk?
Message-ID:  <3CA1F6C0.990F6949@eng.ufl.edu>

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> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:22:49 -0500
> From: "P.B. Ruiter" <pruiter@indigored.com>
> Subject: /usr/home on separate disk?
> 
> Hi,
> I just installed a new freebsd box with two ide drives. As I intend to use
> this as dedicated file/print/samba server on a mixed small office network, I
> thought it a good idea to dedicate one drive to /usr/home. I installed
> 4.5-Release as such with default settings for drive 0 and a single slice
> /usr/home on drive 1 (and swap on both).
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a    128990    31748    86924    27%    /
> /dev/ad0s1f    257998        4   237356     0%    /tmp
> /dev/ad0s1g   9044900   786382  7534926     9%    /usr
> /dev/ad1s1e  19099614       20 17571626     0%    /usr/home
> /dev/ad0s1e    257998      738   236622     0%    /var
> 
> 
> I realize there is already a /usr/home under /usr. How do I get rid of this
> and point it to my /usr/home on ad1s1e? I tried rmdir /home within /usr -
> this only gave me a busy reply. Please help...
> 

It is already there.  /usr/home IS /dev/ad1s1e.  When you mount a 
partition at a point in the filesystem, it appears at that point.  
I.E. when you mount /dev/ad1s1e at /usr/home, everything in that 
partition will appear under /usr/home (in your case, it was 
automatically mounted at boot time).

If you installed FreeBSD first, and then added /dev/ad1s1e to the 
existing system later, there will be a /usr/home on /dev/ad0s1g 
that you can not access when /dev/ad1s1e is mounted.  No big deal, 
if it is empty it only takes up a couple of sectors of disk space.  
If you had ad1 in place when you installed FreeBSD, and told the 
installer to create ad1s1e and mount it as /usr/home as part of the 
install process, then you don't even have to worry about that. 
Based on your description of what you did, I think you have nothing 
to worry about.


> Pieter
> 

- Bob

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