On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:41, W. D. wrote: > > Thanks for the info. > > I looked into this a little closer. In 'FreeBSD Unleashed', on page > 38 it says: "/home This is where the users' home directories are > located. It is often located under the /usr partition. If you are > going to have a lot of users, and you expect them to have a lot of > files, you might want to put /home on its own partition, or possibly > even give /home an entire disk." > > In 'The Complete FreeBSD' (4th edition), on page 70: "Use the rest > of the space on disk for a /home file system, as long as it's > possible to back it up on a single tape. Otherwise, make multiple file > systems. /home is the normal directory for user files." > > In the online handbook, > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html, > Table 2-2: "/usr Rest of disk All your other files will typically be stored in > /usr and its subdirectories." > > Alrighty, then. I am confused. On the 3 boxes that I just installed > FreeBSD 4.9 on, none of them even have a /home or a /usr/home directory. > So, there certainly isn't a /home partition. Is /home created as its > own slice in 5.x?
FreeBSD allows you a lot of flexibility, including how you lay out your disks. The lack of agreement is good. > These boxes have 80 GB hard drives and have the majority of that > capacity contained in /usr. The way I set up a system, / and /usr do not change much. /var and /home are where the action is. And I link /home to /usr/home, so that /home/aUserName is the same as /usr/home/aUserName. > > Based on all this advice and research, I think I will create a new > directory under /usr called /home. Under this, I'll create > /samba/public (full path: /usr/home/samba/public). > > Any objections, or comments? Yes, go ahead and set this up. Just keep in mind that at some point in the future you might want to redesign you layout -- when you set up your next server :-) Gary Dunn Honolulu _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
