From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 19:45:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A972F8B for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x236.google.com (mail-wg0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C91CDEA5 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:45:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n12so7236111wgh.27 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AmqeKMaaGNl/hkw5RTyHCNv2WaB2MRPLkTweauOApFs=; b=Mid0LFu5yw5a1huffieNPiPBWLFQ1hcQyp1KckQo9ZON+L0gXx6neFeRVVLWMrhyS0 oCd1eyklqlcLlrb1aCwv1XNcH7ud2IGeVIKpjsDPw92ThijFedSCfNsyLHFJw16ag+B7 ytpXnFqvQ45EWrRUNiBMB00RL3rKKawBvRkU1oP99QIdElsHpCjHhHEZXolmE4WQAWnJ EFnX1cNkfmdKNT/LQ1yjaQa8j+jx4X71HeJU1RVNsehjLjsudmaRppIq6cOtXWro63Gs RXdzZO/l8O3DDhx6TWiuOkT445xxwVXpDBNCgCYx1+TbJHEk7Gmiqgzryf+mz5ePYbuY mD8g== X-Received: by 10.194.187.77 with SMTP id fq13mr37433298wjc.14.1415562344040; Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (5ec1f671.skybroadband.com. [94.193.246.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n4sm20309111wjb.40.2014.11.09.11.45.42 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 09 Nov 2014 11:45:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 19:45:40 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where do user files go these days? Message-ID: <20141109194540.20c574dd@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <3272471.UYQ3DxhorQ@curlew.lan> References: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> <545F5AD6.6000404@FreeBSD.org> <545F7B85.1050900@qeng-ho.org> <3272471.UYQ3DxhorQ@curlew.lan> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:45:46 -0000 On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 15:30:10 +0000 Mike Clarke wrote: > On Sunday 09 Nov 2014 14:34:45 Arthur Chance wrote: > > On 09/11/2014 12:15, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Now, moving /home into /usr/home and making a compatibility > > > symlink > > > might make sense for some partitioning schemes with UFS, but it > > > certainly doesn't when installing with ZFS or with an all-in-one > > > style UFS partition. > > I've never understood the logic of putting /home under /usr. If you > ever needed to do a fresh install from scratch it would be all too > easy to wipe out all of home when you delete the original contents of > /usr. I've always assumed that it was to avoid having to decide how to divide UFS disk space between /home and /usr, since it's pretty much impossible to come up with a default that isn't badly wrong for some users. And it was only a default.