--As of February 17, 2012 11:46:23 PM +0100, Polytropon is alleged to have
said:
Well, to be honest, I never liked the "old style" default
with /home being part of /usr. As I mentioned before, _my_
default style for separated partitions include:
/
swap
/tmp
/var
/usr
/home
In special cases, add /opt or /scratch as separate partitions
with intendedly limited sizes.
You can see that all user data is kept independently from
the rest of the system. It can easily be switched over to
a separate "home disk" if needed.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
I'm in agreement with you on that I like to have /home be a separate
partition, and not under /usr. (Of course, my current zfs system has 40
partitions...) Partly though I recognize that I like it because that's
what I'm used to, and how I learned to set it up originally. (My first
unix experience was with OpenBSD, over 10 years ago now.)
I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under
/usr though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone
care to enlighten me? What are the perceived advantages? (Particularly if
you then make a symlink to /home.)
Just a question that's been bugging me, as I read through different FreeBSD
docs.
Daniel T. Staal
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