From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Sat Nov 14 21:16:07 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1292A2FC38 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3D4E14CC for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id tAELG7nV073291 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:07 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 204550] `hier(7)' neither mentions /home nor /usr/home Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:07 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: new X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Documentation X-Bugzilla-Component: Documentation X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Some People X-Bugzilla-Who: florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: bug_id short_desc product version rep_platform op_sys bug_status bug_severity priority component assigned_to reporter Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:08 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204550 Bug ID: 204550 Summary: `hier(7)' neither mentions /home nor /usr/home Product: Documentation Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: Documentation Assignee: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Reporter: florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de A few days ago I implied not everything unixy stores the home directories in /home oh github [0]. Then I wondered why I have seen both /home and /usr/home on FreeBSD systems and took a look into `hier(7)' The only $HOME mentioned in the manpage is /root, no /home or /usr/home. The most useful information I found is a mailinglist thread discussing the difference [1]. >From what I've understood /home is/was used as a mount point when there's a separate partition for the users' home directories. When there's no such partition it's symlink to /usr/home assuming /usr has it's own partition thus the users' home directories won't clutter the root filesystem. I'm not 100% sure that's correct. A recent 10.2 installation on ZFS created a separate filesystem for the home directories but it's mounted under /usr/home and /home is a symlink pointing there. PS: Affects only those people who actually read `hier(7)' ;) [0] https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/users-formula/pull/100#issuecomment-156350893 [1] http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/usr-home-vs-home-td5012063.html -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.