On 02/18/12 17:47, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 18 February 2012 13:05:49 Lars Eighner wrote:
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Daniel Staal wrote:
I've never seen anything listing the main reasons for having /home under /usr
though. I figure there must be a decent reason why. Would anyone care to
enlighten me? What are the perceived advantages? (Particularly if you then
make a symlink to /home.)
There may have been a historic reason, but now it is philosophical - trying
when I got my hands for the first time on a BSD system, the machine has had
several 5MB hard disks.
I assume that what now is called partitioning came from the need to have
several disks to run a serious system.
And yes, it was possible to boot and run BSD with at least 20 users on several
5MB disks.
Erich
Erich, can I be so bold as to ask what brand the disks were? And tax
your memory as to when?
I came across an 80M disk a few years ago (at a time when 120G was the
largest), and I was thinking I could use that to prop up my swap space
by about 1 or 2% ;)
That one was a quantum I think...
During my tertiary education we used to get 2M of space as a user, I was
always filling it up in a few sessions. But I digress...
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