Re: git: 36db6b04962a - main - hier(7): document /home/ and /usr/home/
- In reply to: Alexey Dokuchaev : "Re: git: 36db6b04962a - main - hier(7): document /home/ and /usr/home/"
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Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:40:04 UTC
On 11 May 2023, at 4:11, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 04:48:12PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: >> ... >> I'm sure the kludge was originally done when root and /usr were separate >> file systems by default, root was small, and there was no /home by default. > > I think that's the idea, yes. FWIW, I still partition my drives this way: > 2~4GB root with big /usr and /home (the latter lives on separate partition > because it's encrypted). For non-encrypted setup, /home does not have to > be a separate partition and can be a symlink to `usr/home'. I actually > don't find this inconvenient or particularly kludgy. Surely it's nice to > be able to encrypt one's data, but it's also nice not having to worry if > you'd suddenly get ENOSPC while there's still plenty of room on adjacent > partition. For anyone using non-default partitioning (and that includes me), allocating space reasonably is up to them. It would certainly possible to use /usr/home; the easiest way is to simply specify home directories with /usr/home/user explicitly. Of course, it would be possible to replace a /home directory with a symlink manually. Mike >> However, we now default to a single large file system (with datasets, in >> the ZFS case). > > ZFS makes it all easier of course, but at its present state is not usable > on 13+, so I'm confined to UFS until ZoL guys can fix their sh^code. :( > > ./danfe