On 02/18/12 12:16, Daniel Staal wrote:
--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.)
I always thought /usr was like user partition :)
But seriously, for the pedantic yes, but for a desktop user (at least)
having home on /usr partition makes sense - balances space and
functionality; plus a lack of nodes on the disk for partitions? Limit
was 8 I think. But now with /usr/home if you want to install from ports
it can take a few gig, but that can be wasted because you're not always
installing from ports, so might as well share space with the home
directories and balance that way. Otherwise you'd need 30G (about) for
/usr/ports and all the stuff you want to install and then that cannot be
used at all for /home which could be cleared quite easily to make room
if necessary if it was on the same partition.
All is possible, but not all is necessary or recommended.
If I seem a little 'spacy' I have kids hurrying me to make their lunch... ;)
Just a question that's been bugging me, as I read through different
FreeBSD docs.
Daniel T. Staal
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