Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 23:39:54 -0500 From: "T. Michael Sommers" <tmsommers2@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where do user files go these days? Message-ID: <545EF01A.8020804@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> <20141109035011.a3fea3b3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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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
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