Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:44:43 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home Message-ID: <4F425C5B.3040005@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <201202181447.32623.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <3D08D03C85ACFBB1ABCDC5DA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202172316230.11247@abbf.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <201202181447.32623.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
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On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote: > 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 Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And tax your memory as to when? I came across an 80M disk a few years ago (at a time when 120G was the largest), and I was thinking I could use that to prop up my swap space by about 1 or 2% ;) That one was a quantum I think... During my tertiary education we used to get 2M of space as a user, I was always filling it up in a few sessions. But I digress...
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