From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 14:49:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12BA106566C for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725138FC12 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:49:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78CDF5C28 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:03:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 10C045C22 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:03:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F425C5B.3040005@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:44:43 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <3D08D03C85ACFBB1ABCDC5DA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <201202181447.32623.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <201202181447.32623.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:49:34 -0000 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...