Freebsd and /home???

Alright, I've decided that it's time for a change, and am looking for something new for an OS. (Ok, I get restless and embark on new things.)

Anyway, I was looking over the documentation for freebsd, and didn't see any reference to /home in the partitioning schemes.

Is /home used for user files? If not, then where are they stored?

I like having a separate partition for my personal files. I've had many a time when that has saved my work when I've had to reinstall the OS (brother-in-law simply unplugged my computer one time to move it rather than powering it off -- result was a completly unbootable system).

TIA

/home is a sim-link to /usr/home

/home -> /usr/home

So then if I'm considering switching from linux to freebsd, all I'd need to do is mount the current /home partition in /usr/home and all is well?

(assuming compatible partitions that is)

I'm currently useing reiserfs on /home, which, if I read right would cause some problems.

yeah, you're pretty much hosed mounting reiser from fbsd

Usually, you have to explicitly make a /home partition. That is where user files are stored, but for some reason, FreeBSD doesn't suggest one during the install. This can be rather irritating, because the / partition is usually very small, like 256MB. This can cause a problem once even a single user decides to actually start saving stuff. :mad:

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Originally Posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379

Usually, you have to explicitly make a /home partition. That is where user files are stored, but for some reason, FreeBSD doesn't suggest one during the install. This can be rather irritating, because the / partition is usually very small, like 256MB. This can cause a problem once even a single user decides to actually start saving stuff. :mad:

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That is actually not a problem, as (at least using the default partitioning scheme) the largest partition is /usr, which as was mentioned before, is where /home is on a FreeBSD system (there is a /home, but it is a symlink to /usr/home). A user named 'tom' has his home directory at /usr/home/tom.

umm just dont use autopartition when you install, set up the partitions however you want

if its a desktop then a single / partition and a swap partition should be just fine
you might want to make sure you hit the s key when you create your root partition to enable softupdates for UFS