[LBo] Permanent /home partition

[Stefan Waidele jun.]

Randy Kramer wrote:
> [...]
> Stefan Waidele wrote:
 >> [...]
>> Unix was designed to allow many people to work on one machine, even
>> across the network (or have their homedirectory mounted across the
>> netword from yet another machine, and I think this is where the current
>> approach has its pros.
> 
> Unless you're alluding to something else, the approach I'd prefer would only 
> require sharing two directories instead of one (for example: /data/<user> 
> and /config/<user>). 

I am not alluding anything.
You are right. Why not share two directories instead of one?

> [...]
> (Was it this thread or 
> some other that pointed out that /home used to be (in some sense) /usr?)

Homedirectories can be wherever. They are stored per user in /etc/passwd.

Many system-accounts (e.g. pgsql) have their ~ in /var/wherever.
Unix-programs can cope with that.

I think I will change my home to /germany/will/win/the/soccer/worldcup

;)

Stefan

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