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If you have space on your disk, I would still advise to have a separate 
partition for /home. If you have to reinstall your system, you won't loose 
your data (emails, etc.)

Anyway, you can always have a link called /home if you wish.

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:17, Eric Rivas wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:37:41 +0300
>
> flux <flux@hotbox.ru> wrote:
> > Maybe kinda strange question, but...
> > Why users' home directory located in /usr by default, not in
> > root directory unlike Linux?
> > Any ideas?
>
> It used to be in /, but then most people had a hard time partitioning
> when deciding how much space to put in /usr and /home (home should not
> be the root partition), so the default is to make them one partition and
> have /home as /usr/home. If you make a /home partition during install, I
> believe that the default will be /home.