From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 11: 1:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69E015348 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA09202; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:02:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907131802.OAA09202@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible... In-Reply-To: from Doug at "Jul 13, 99 10:50:05 am" To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:02:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: cjclark@home.com, DBoune@co.napa.ca.us, bright@rush.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote, > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Boune, Damian wrote, > > > Thank you Alfred. Much appreciated. > > > > > > Why do you suggest not creating /usr/home until later? > > > > My guess would be, simply because the install is not really designed > > to work that way. > > > > Since people are making recomendations, I'll toss in another > > $0.02. Even though the setup below will work, I would personally mount > > the home partition at /home and make /usr/home a symbolic link to > > /home. That way, the mounting of the home partition does not depend on > > /usr > > It's usually done the other way around for a couple reasons. > Mostly because you don't want regular (untrusted) users to have access to > the / partition. root's home directory is mounted there, everyone else is > on /usr. On systems that sell shell access it's common to have a > completely seperate file system for user home directories. > > If you don't allow untrusted users on your system, you don't need > to worry about that precaution, however you may still run into issues of > disk space. Huh? Like you mentioned, we _do_ have a separate filesystem for user home directories (the text with the partiton layout and their positions in the directory tree was in my original mail, but you snipped it here). I was just suggesting this be mounted at /home and sr/homebe symlinked to it, rather than the reverse. The main reason for this is that one could potentially mount and unmount the /usr partition (a completely independent filesystem as well) without needing to worry about the home filesystem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message