Subject: Re: /usr/home
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: James Sharp <jsharp@psychoses.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/24/2000 12:00:12
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Curt Sampson wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, George Sollish wrote:
> 
> > Actually how to do it wasn't the question, and since no one said it was a
> > bad idea (which was) I've made the move on my three boxes.  The question
> > remains, in this age of browser caches and such, shouldn't the default be
> > /usr/home?
> 
> No; because home might not be in /usr. (It isn't on many of my systems.)
> If we changed, of course, you could always link /usr/home to wherever
> your home is, but then you can already do that with /home.
> 

I've always been a fan of making /home a separate partition...that way my
users can't break anything by saving gigabytes of porn or hundreds of
copies of some source tree.