Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 14:24:24 +0000 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 36db6b04962a - main - hier(7): document /home/ and /usr/home/ Message-ID: <20230511162424.3e8b3e55@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <ZFyxOEJT7bhz4zHF@FreeBSD.org> References: <202305101419.34AEJf1x054239@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <ba22a75d-06c0-371e-603e-7ded9d1dca97@freebsd.org> <20230510151313.9E7A6111@slippy.cwsent.com> <4367FD0A-76AC-4E98-A133-E50D8CF841C7@karels.net> <ZFyxOEJT7bhz4zHF@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 11 May 2023 09:11:20 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 04:48:12PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > ... > > I'm sure the kludge was originally done when root and /usr were separa= te > > file systems by default, root was small, and there was no /home by def= ault. > > I think that's the idea, yes. FWIW, I still partition my drives this wa= y: > 2~4GB root with big /usr and /home (the latter lives on separate partiti= on > because it's encrypted). For non-encrypted setup, /home does not have t= o > be a separate partition and can be a symlink to `usr/home'. I actually > don't find this inconvenient or particularly kludgy. Surely it's nice t= o > be able to encrypt one's data, but it's also nice not having to worry if > you'd suddenly get ENOSPC while there's still plenty of room on adjacent > partition. > This kind of setup is OK for a single-user system. But for an admin tryin= g to set up a system with many users it would be very problematical if /usr were to fill up. I personally have a 60G SSD for /usr and a 1TB SSD for /home. My /home has about 4 times more data on it than is on /usr. > > However, we now default to a single large file system (with datasets, = in > > the ZFS case). > > ZFS makes it all easier of course, but at its present state is not usabl= e > on 13+, so I'm confined to UFS until ZoL guys can fix their sh^code. :( > > ./danfe > =2D- Gary Jennejohn
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