Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 21:16:07 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 204550] `hier(7)' neither mentions /home nor /usr/home Message-ID: <bug-204550-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204550 Bug ID: 204550 Summary: `hier(7)' neither mentions /home nor /usr/home Product: Documentation Version: Latest Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: Documentation Assignee: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Reporter: florian.ermisch@alumni.tu-berlin.de A few days ago I implied not everything unixy stores the home directories in /home oh github [0]. Then I wondered why I have seen both /home and /usr/home on FreeBSD systems and took a look into `hier(7)' The only $HOME mentioned in the manpage is /root, no /home or /usr/home. The most useful information I found is a mailinglist thread discussing the difference [1]. >From what I've understood /home is/was used as a mount point when there's a separate partition for the users' home directories. When there's no such partition it's symlink to /usr/home assuming /usr has it's own partition thus the users' home directories won't clutter the root filesystem. I'm not 100% sure that's correct. A recent 10.2 installation on ZFS created a separate filesystem for the home directories but it's mounted under /usr/home and /home is a symlink pointing there. PS: Affects only those people who actually read `hier(7)' ;) [0] https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/users-formula/pull/100#issuecomment-156350893 [1] http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/usr-home-vs-home-td5012063.html -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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