From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 23:44:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB249106566C for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:44:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@dogwood.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34C18FC0A for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:44:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenq9 with SMTP id q9so1183632yen.13 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:44:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dogwood.com; s=google; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=UGDBDx4mTVErgb6QSsPK0Ccuv70zZtfzjhGM5Z/d1ng=; b=fEFB6G4e+nxbW4/2ax4hX6Pd00S+fBaEyiYCjTByWmgsyHpvK78Zj3JeTVFCu5I1yo HD2vreHOWJBXqcZlWmfM0gCdXGwdb3eNkMQWW2q0JImFdoqMl8xlVS3/qX3p6jSJKiE3 h7Piw7hYiK3eOSd0wudAzhdW7VIvX7cHw5XOo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.135.40 with SMTP id pp8mr16993389igb.1.1321917337010; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.175.134 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:15:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:15:36 -1000 Message-ID: From: David Cornejo To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: /usr/home vs /home X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:44:32 -0000 Hi, In the old days home was typically a separate partition that was mounted on /home. If you didn't have a partition the installer would create /usr/home and symlink /home to it. The root was also typically an independent partition, so it made sense not to clutter it up with home directories. Now that the default behavior is to use one big partition, the installer defaults to /usr/home + symlink. I've always liked the more succinct /home and was wondering if there is any reason why not to delete the symlink and move home to / to mimic the old many partition style? thanks, dave c