From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 9 02:37:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 549AEBCE for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 02:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-x22c.google.com (mail-qg0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22c]) (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 0C30AB3 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 02:37:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id q107so4176550qgd.3 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:37:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1/yCG05yIhwKJXwNKepI9Pxi9cdhjrxj2dmQu8zAL5w=; b=lrkfg2N5UlO39KYy0QWiXgXE3uulNEewdY/TEuaX6PhcNPBE4AgcgDqhzFtZz2LQ2e QAEjHWM4gkHDyVj5sQ7lK9Gh7Ap8sm+qj3KQCDcw1joCKVL2WRMRpe4pTMseZqR/yDfO a7DBj3YZi5kIIOWWrHL2/3ptSsxuVlteJSliUCLi/9MI+38ZxyTiuTOPoqQqmACNEyHy QqFxuj8iYT1hWimTxAvnApddGJM7+0jiSCCgjkff2s4uEiAdl0jPjhTDXbyZvTrqULH8 HBf1dmpIr5F85RiYHfQfUb2uUbnFORrn/stE1c3gYBLpMlgmdiH5OCQ7mj3EJxmbGEnd CCDg== X-Received: by 10.140.34.233 with SMTP id l96mr12119633qgl.74.1415500646718; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.21] (c-76-117-90-8.hsd1.nj.comcast.net. [76.117.90.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m16sm12178930qaf.11.2014.11.08.18.37.26 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:37:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <545ED36B.8040207@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 21:37:31 -0500 From: "T. Michael Sommers" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Where do user files go these days? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 02:37:39 -0000 I've noticed that neither the instructions for partitioning a disk in the handbook, nor hier(7), mention a /home partition. Is such a partition still used? If not, where do user files go? -- T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2@gmail.com -- ab2sb