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home directory

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 12:47 pm
by mechanic
New installation of GhostBSD; looks round at the folders/directories; the home folder seems to be setup both as /home/<myname> and as /usr/home/<myname> ! both of these locations look real, no links I can see.

What's the idea?

Re: home directory

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 9:42 pm
by RodMyers
in a terminal, type;

ls -al /home

you will see it is symlinked to /usr/home

Re: home directory

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 11:45 pm
by wb7odyfred
Mechanic, the idea is if you have one '/' root directory where all is installed the 'ln -s /usr/home /home ' allows the file system to work, simply.

Other setups wish to have a separate /home disk partition so that they can separate an update or change to the operating system from their personal files and configurations. that case might be like mount -t zfs /dev/da0p6 /home ; ln -s /usr/home /home Something like this

Re: home directory

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 5:52 am
by mechanic
OK, thanks all, I didn't see the link when I had a quick look round earlier.