Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:31:57 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /usr/home vs /home (was: Re: One or Four?) Message-ID: <CAHu1Y716dnvxs=cSg=2m5hCu4D8_u0otHkU-vb%2B6TmX%2B11BGRA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <718F65932F311804F7DD0E8A@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <4F3ECF23.5000706@fisglobal.com> <20120217234623.cf7e169c.freebsd@edvax.de> <3D08D03C85ACFBB1ABCDC5DA@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120218210628.GA33662@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <CAHu1Y70xWhk%2BT=pvmEe75qnZ1QJG9eRR0X4uV_8ha8YiTU_LZg@mail.gmail.com> <718F65932F311804F7DD0E8A@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> wrote: > --As of February 18, 2012 2:46:32 PM -0800, Michael Sierchio is alleged to > have said: > >> man hier True, but /usr/... was a typical place to find users' home directories, since /usr is mounted when the system goes to.... multiuser mode. /home and /usr/home weren't originally featured in UNIX. /usr/kudzu might have been kudzu's home directory, or - in a large installation, before the advent of directory hashing, a scheme like /usr/k/ku/kudzu was used to limit the number of directories in each component of the path.
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