Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:15:01 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash on login with mounted home drive Message-ID: <20200315181501.54ef73f9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20200315170839.18f03dea5fb148251be193f8@sohara.org> References: <ef18b07d7772ff4ae4a9765920242409@imap.plus.net> <aaafa0ec-fe6b-6bbd-e5c8-b5569e083c6f@dreamchaser.org> <20200315170506.96988775.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200315170839.18f03dea5fb148251be193f8@sohara.org>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:08:39 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:05:06 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > I have _never_ > > used /usr/home, and actually that directory doesn't even > > exist in my installations. > > It used to be common to have /usr was a filesystem but not /home > then /home was usually a symlink to /usr/home. FreeBSD used to install that > way. The default installation always had /usr/home (at least since I've been using FreeBSD). You could empty it and use it as a mount point for a 2nd disk (or a different partition on the system disk), and /home@ -> /usr/home would still work, but I never found this specific constellation reality; usually /home (the root entry) was used to either hold the home directories on the "all in one" system disk, mount a partition also located on the system disk, or a partition on a 2nd disk, or even mount from network. I think I understand this as a historic construct mainly due to smaller disks, that's why "functional partitioning" had been done with physical disks, then with separate partitions on the same disk, but today, the "all in one" approach doesn't really require /usr/home to exist (where /home, as a real directory, not even as a mount point for a 2nd disk) would be sufficient. However, FreeBSD, as all real UNIXes, is full of historc things (core storage, drum memory etc.), so it definitely doesn't hurt. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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