From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 8 20:56:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD395106564A; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:56:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40138FC19; Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaai12 with SMTP id i12so1770151eaa.13 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:56:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2NKru2Fs7Tf2J68Pk6jp7UQ85yl7DXJfw+VqJwsENUw=; b=gaXv1mUii3J5VrITXshx4BE8HgpdUB7zOTcYNgXqfilijBLMzHqg9w0nljhzCoXh7H qwJ3d3j6TppiOuxK1tOyIIWH9mQx6Eu48DGm9eT1QiMCkQNK2i3y+Wsn46FRQPPaLPee burK2GfVM4u23wVOHMxUARwRoyoq0Yse0XRgk= Received: by 10.213.9.134 with SMTP id l6mr332327ebl.57.1323377792949; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.150] (athedsl-4364788.home.otenet.gr. [79.130.9.228]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 58sm22021050eet.11.2011.12.08.12.56.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:56:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EE12480.3030606@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:56:32 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <201112071830.pB7IUEHQ082055@freefall.freebsd.org> <4EE0F6B2.8090005@FreeBSD.org> <4EE11E0E.1060207@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4EE11E0E.1060207@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: docs/163102: linprocfs mounted in wrong location in Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:56:34 -0000 On 8/12/2011 10:29 μμ, John Baldwin wrote: > On 12/8/11 1:57 PM, Sergey Kandaurov wrote: >> >> Also from man hier: >> >> /compat/ normally a link to /usr/compat. If not, then the >> /usr/compat >> comments apply (created by sysinstall(8)) >> ... >> /usr/compat/ files needed to support binary compatibility with >> other operating systems, such as Linux >> (created by >> sysinstall(8)) > > I would be fine with removing the /usr/compat entry from this manpage > and moving its description to the /compat entry. I would drop mention > of sysinstall(8), and maybe add a note to say that /compat is typically > a symlink to /usr/compat (though that will not be true on a 9.0 > machine). I guess it was left out of bsdinstall due to the one big / > layout, but for users who use a custom layout (e.g. myself, I don't like > one big /), it might be nice if bsdinstall did this rather than forcing > users to have to remember this detail. Probably correct, for users opting to go with the traditional partitioning scheme, / may prove to be too small when linux_base gets installed. It would be best if bsdinstall creates the link for /compat. > Does bsdinstall always make > /home a symlink to /usr/home to support custom layouts? If so, it > should apply the same logic to /compat. It might be nice if it could > "notice" that /usr is separate and auto-create /compat and /home links > in that case if it is currently doing nothing for /home. > As a matter of fact, bsdinstall will not create /home at all if you don't create a user during install. But if you opt to create a user, adduser(8) is called and it actually creates both /usr/home and the /home link. So in short yes, we still have /usr/home and the /home symlink, but it is not directly created by bsdinstall.