Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: "Boune, Damian" <DBoune@co.napa.ca.us>, bright@rush.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131047280.15397-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <199907131648.MAA09049@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> Boune, Damian wrote,
> > Thank you Alfred. Much appreciated.
> >
> > Why do you suggest not creating /usr/home until later?
>
> My guess would be, simply because the install is not really designed
> to work that way.
>
> Since people are making recomendations, I'll toss in another
> $0.02. Even though the setup below will work, I would personally mount
> the home partition at /home and make /usr/home a symbolic link to
> /home. That way, the mounting of the home partition does not depend on
> /usr
It's usually done the other way around for a couple reasons.
Mostly because you don't want regular (untrusted) users to have access to
the / partition. root's home directory is mounted there, everyone else is
on /usr. On systems that sell shell access it's common to have a
completely seperate file system for user home directories.
If you don't allow untrusted users on your system, you don't need
to worry about that precaution, however you may still run into issues of
disk space.
Good luck,
Doug
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