If you have space on your disk, I would still advise to have a separate partition for /home. If you have to reinstall your system, you won't loose your data (emails, etc.)
Anyway, you can always have a link called /home if you wish. On Tuesday 23 December 2003 16:17, Eric Rivas wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:37:41 +0300 > > flux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe kinda strange question, but... > > Why users' home directory located in /usr by default, not in > > root directory unlike Linux? > > Any ideas? > > It used to be in /, but then most people had a hard time partitioning > when deciding how much space to put in /usr and /home (home should not > be the root partition), so the default is to make them one partition and > have /home as /usr/home. If you make a /home partition during install, I > believe that the default will be /home. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
