Subject: Re: /usr/home
To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/20/2000 11:35:56
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:06:56AM -0500, George Sollish wrote:
> On my office i386 box I run 1.4.1 with the default plux X partition
> scheme, which puts /home and /var in / .  Not only does this
> result in a lot being written to /, but Netscape caches rapidly eat into
> the space.  FreeBSD 3.2 (at home) creates a separate /var and links /home
> to /usr/home.  This appears to be a better scheme, both for space and for 
> maintaining a clean /. Is there a good reason not to do this in 1.4.1? 

# mv /home /usr
# ln -s usr/home /

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