Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:22:15 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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: <ef18b07d7772ff4ae4a9765920242409@imap.plus.net> <aaafa0ec-fe6b-6bbd-e5c8-b5569e083c6f@dreamchaser.org> <20200315170506.96988775.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200315170839.18f03dea5fb148251be193f8@sohara.org> <20200315181501.54ef73f9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:15:01 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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 <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), 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/
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