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On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:31:57 -0800 (PST),
totorolm@gmail.com <totorolm@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a single partition with users home directories (traditionally /
> home) and
Traditionally, /usr. But that was a really long time ago.
> additionnal software (traditionally /usr/local).
> What would be the mount point of such partition ?
Anywhere you wish. After all, it's up to you how to put your system
together. You could try and, oh, symlink /home to /usr/local/home, for
example. As it happens, my main workbox' /home is a large partition that
has lots of other stuff symlinked from /usr, with the goal of mounting
/usr read-only. /usr/local is a distinct mount, though.
With doing such things it falls to you to make sure the parts of the
system that depend on the paths you just changed are updated, of course.
> According to Wikipedia on Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
That is mostly a linux thing, and moreover, more important to
distribution makers. My system of choice (FreeBSD) comes with a hier(7)
that explains how the distribution is laid out. A quick look around the
collection of manpages (including for different systems) on the FreeBSD
project site[man] shows that not all systems have such a manpage. Those
that do offer interesting comparative material.
If it is about a single user system, it doesn't really matter. Even for
large scale unix installations it doesn't matter if you make up your
own, as long as the site documentation is being kept updated. The FHS
is just /a/ way of doing things, not necessairily /the/ way. It arose
exactly because linux comes in so many distributions, all different.
[man] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
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