Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:53:17 +0100 From: Olivier Gautherot <ogautherot@freesurf.fr> To: Eric Rivas <ericr@sourmilk.net>, flux <flux@hotbox.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/home directory Message-ID: <200401221953.17431.ogautherot@freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <20031223101712.77fe4db5.ericr@sourmilk.net> References: <1561878551.20031224123741@hotbox.ru> <20031223101712.77fe4db5.ericr@sourmilk.net>
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If you have space on your disk, I would still advise to have a separate partition for /home. If you have to reinstall your system, you won't loose your data (emails, etc.) Anyway, you can always have a link called /home if you wish. On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:17, Eric Rivas wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:37:41 +0300 > > flux <flux@hotbox.ru> wrote: > > Maybe kinda strange question, but... > > Why users' home directory located in /usr by default, not in > > root directory unlike Linux? > > Any ideas? > > It used to be in /, but then most people had a hard time partitioning > when deciding how much space to put in /usr and /home (home should not > be the root partition), so the default is to make them one partition and > have /home as /usr/home. If you make a /home partition during install, I > believe that the default will be /home.
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