From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 16:26:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8BE016A4D0 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:26:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ED143D3F for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:26:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from carter.pixi.com ([206.127.224.102]:3747 "EHLO carter.pixi.com") by relay.pixi.com with ESMTP id S8291AbUIXQ0z (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:26:55 -1000 Received: from Internal (206.127.224.85) by carter with SMTP; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:20:19 GMT X-Titankey-e_id: Received: from vaiosr7k.ozland (atm-251-63.pixi.com [206.127.251.63]) by koa.aloha.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i8OGJMBH011674; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:19:25 -1000 (HST) From: Gary Dunn To: "W. D." In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040923180854.1024b770@209.152.117.178> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040923180854.1024b770@209.152.117.178> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.13 (Preview Release) Date: 24 Sep 2004 06:16:51 -1000 Message-Id: <1096042615.3846.7.camel@vaiosr7k.ozland> Mime-Version: 1.0 cc: samba@lists.samba.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Samba public directory on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:26:57 -0000 On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:41, W. D. wrote: > > Thanks for the info. > > I looked into this a little closer. In 'FreeBSD Unleashed', on page > 38 it says: "/home This is where the users' home directories are > located. It is often located under the /usr partition. If you are > going to have a lot of users, and you expect them to have a lot of > files, you might want to put /home on its own partition, or possibly > even give /home an entire disk." > > In 'The Complete FreeBSD' (4th edition), on page 70: "Use the rest > of the space on disk for a /home file system, as long as it's > possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise, make multiple file > systems. /home is the normal directory for user files." > > In the online handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html, > Table 2-2: "/usr Rest of disk All your other files will typically be stored in /usr and its subdirectories." > > Alrighty, then. I am confused. On the 3 boxes that I just installed > FreeBSD 4.9 on, none of them even have a /home or a /usr/home directory. > So, there certainly isn't a /home partition. Is /home created as its > own slice in 5.x? FreeBSD allows you a lot of flexibility, including how you lay out your disks. The lack of agreement is good. > These boxes have 80 GB hard drives and have the majority of that > capacity contained in /usr. The way I set up a system, / and /usr do not change much. /var and /home are where the action is. And I link /home to /usr/home, so that /home/aUserName is the same as /usr/home/aUserName. > > Based on all this advice and research, I think I will create a new > directory under /usr called /home. Under this, I'll create > /samba/public (full path: /usr/home/samba/public). > > Any objections, or comments? Yes, go ahead and set this up. Just keep in mind that at some point in the future you might want to redesign you layout -- when you set up your next server :-) Gary Dunn Honolulu