From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 04:39:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A15CD13A for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 04:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x22d.google.com (mail-qa0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 561C8F32 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 04:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f45.google.com with SMTP id dc16so4024981qab.32 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:39:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Tp5NcedhGOYX08vBBWFsU7eP9uwYSgHB0TcPj+jfz/k=; b=F18qno8+QOtto1weyoErAx+6ANhDQjAUSreu3CAJ5HhUV65MjYc/86WXCkfDPcwelE fQT1lQiy9B9fA4md++D+7dFYnlw2G9Z9nE+DaPZUyQ5ifBmy9eWqTyzGn2XZhrzIlODq mZb3aXGhFQQvKhzPB6PvZLYUtYPNljtQnpjIS914Z1386OKJaW9WgzDxJxGfNdwUGb7a RXnOG6WHOttD4Fn7KJnBEOn/+/mtpGJEc4G79rtyKtx81ylN3SDwcv9Q+/yUYhkJoyfW eC/cATeBxxeY1kGajhCM7XAUyNds/tRyFUfVrs11WvY/rA2S6hRLDCqBfrWI3gCXKePk tA8Q== X-Received: by 10.224.156.136 with SMTP id x8mr4690437qaw.22.1415507989570; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.21] (c-76-117-90-8.hsd1.nj.comcast.net. [76.117.90.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f65sm12330039qga.9.2014.11.08.20.39.48 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:39:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <545EF01A.8020804@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 23:39:54 -0500 From: "T. Michael Sommers" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: Where do user files go these days? References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 04:39:50 -0000 On 11/8/2014 9:50 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:37:31 -0500, T. Michael Sommers wrote: >> I've noticed that neither the instructions for partitioning a disk in >> the handbook, nor hier(7), mention a /home partition. Is such a >> partition still used? If not, where do user files go? > > It _can_ be used. Traditionally, /home is a symlink > to /usr/home, so if you create partitions according > to OS functionality, the users' data will be stored > on the /usr partition. But you are completely free > to create a dedicated /home partition - on the same > disk or even on a different disk; if you put every- > thing into one big partition, this will also work. > The installer will automatically create the symlink > as /home@ -> /usr/home for you. Thanks. In every system I can remember, /home was a separate file system (when it existed at all), and I didn't see /usr/home in hier(7), so I wondered. (In the Good Old Days (V7), all the user directories were put directly in /usr (so you'd have /usr/fred, and /usr/john, and so on). I'm surprised they're back under /usr, even if a level deeper.) It was also possible that some entirely new scheme had been created. -- T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2@gmail.com -- ab2sb