From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Mar 16 10:22:28 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E208C261BD7 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48gsmz4Dynz3y54 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1584354148; x=1586946148; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=c2SOTdeA03q9VhHI2bGKykxdlScsOM6DsKlI2Nn/LEE=; b=IE3eKY+Ypi7ETS14VbqUHfZdbYB0IuR1BdcTwgX7U1ObfmGGi4k1aQij+CqPUbSZc3tbqTPdj2Yk9KFSrm1TaPZr60s3KUSj1loPKxoJ/c5t8BeRpEqpMynnGuJUF2NdHrARdqJR/LcW2O3G/vYTdRpt/8zPFTAoTlCyYhOQtEA= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMDAwMDAxMGE5MjkuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r3.h.in.socketlabs.com (r3.h.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.180.13]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:22:17 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r3.h.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 16 Mar 2020 06:22:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jDmsx-00010f-Ir; Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:15 +0000 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:15 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crash on login with mounted home drive Message-Id: <20200316102215.2699db594ca033123ae4897d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20200315181501.54ef73f9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20200315170506.96988775.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200315170839.18f03dea5fb148251be193f8@sohara.org> <20200315181501.54ef73f9.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48gsmz4Dynz3y54 X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=IE3eKY+Y; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.13 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.57)[-0.571,0]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.05)[0.048,0]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[198.176.0.142.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.15.0]; IP_SCORE(0.09)[ip: (-0.25), ipnet: 142.0.176.0/22(0.51), asn: 7381(0.26), country: US(-0.05)]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c0000010a929.a97ba9f699abe155fd5c5e04bb86b6da@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:29 -0000 On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:15:01 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:08:39 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:05:06 +0100 > > Polytropon 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), You could or you could create a /home partition during install in which case you didn't get the symlink or /usr/home. > I think I understand this as a historic construct mainly due to > smaller disks, that's why "functional partitioning" had been Many years ago I visited Altos in the UK and saw a machine one of the guys there was building. It had four 8" floppies /, /etc, /usr, /home, you could hear the inode table seeks. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/