Hello,

I try to, whenever possible, have a separate partition, or even a 
separade disk, that I mount under /home. This ofcource is a bit waste of 
space, but diskspace is cheap these days, and it's easier to keep your 
homedirectories safe this way.

And whenever I'm not able to have a spare partition or harddrive (or 
sometimes, it's just not needed), I just create an /usr/home and 
softlink /home to that directory, which also works very well.

So, in conclution, I would probably recommend moving it to the 
/usr-partition.

Good Luck!

Best Regads,
Ola Eriksson
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Dominic Jones wrote:

>Hi. I am using the default partitioning scheme on i386 (small 'a' partition for / and large 'e' partition for /usr). Most of my directories fit nicely into the 'a' partition. However, I have a large amount of data that belongs under /home. Currently, it's broken up under /usr, but this isn't a great place for it. So, I'm wondering about the "cleanest" or "canonical" way to restructure things. Two possible solutions that I have come up with are:
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>1. Make /home's physical location /usr/home with the appropriate symbolic link (/home -> /usr/home).
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>2. Make a mounting point (/mnt?) other than /usr for the 'e' partition. Place /usr as /mnt/usr and /home as /mnt/home, with appropriate symbolic links (/usr -> /mnt/usr and /home -> /mnt/home).
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>I'm interested in the problem both from the point of view of accepted practice and for avoiding things that could bite me later.
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>Thanks,
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