Re: /usr/home vs /home

On 22.11.2011 11:30, "Thomas Mueller <mueller6727"@bellsouth.net wrote:
In the old days home was typically a separate partition that was
mounted on /home. If you didn't have a partition the installer
would create /usr/home and symlink /home to it. The root was also
typically an independent partition, so it made sense not to clutter
it up with home directories.

Now that the default behavior is to use one big partition, the
installer defaults to /usr/home + symlink.

I've always liked the more succinct /home and was wondering if
there is any reason why not to delete the symlink and move home to
/ to mimic the old many partition style?

thanks, dave c

My preference is to use the traditional /home, on a separate
partition. That way, user data can be kept safe in the case of a
major upgrading or revamping of the system.

This principle is even applicable for MS-Windows, even if the
user-data partition is not called "home".

A Linux user can run two or more distributions sharing the same /home
with each other, but not the same /home as for FreeBSD because of
different file system.

bsdinstall on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 changed my /home to a symlink to
/usr/home, but I changed it back to my preference.

I read that PC-BSD considers /usr/home to be correct.

I agree with Martin Sugioarto <martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on preparing the
disks myself rather than letting the installer do it. bsdinstall
only made things more difficult for partitioning the disk, not
allowing enough space, and also bsdinstall's boot partition was
nonfunctional for me.

But I don't see any advantage to putting /, /usr, and /var on
separate partitions.

This might not be an universal advantage, but it is good to keep the
choice. For example / could reside on a small flash memory built-in on
the mainboard. /usr and /homes are mounted from different fileservers
and /var is on a usb flash drive inside the case, because / is already
filled.

mata ne,
Hendrik

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