From: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The origin of /home
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:09:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F919C1F-3C91-4083-9B46-B5A6D28A1D54@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp_CCi5Tjkm4zq1xiWA4mCduphw_N_kae99ZF7rwfk-bgQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Symlinks? Surely you jest. Not in Version 7 or System V.
The idea was to keep root small for convenience in various stages of setup. /usr was indeed intended to be a separate disk. If you look at the early distributions like V7, you’ll find the /usr image was a separate tape file.
> On Sep 27, 2018, at 9:54 AM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> More opinion, unencumbered by facts. /usr contained many sudirectories, like /usr/bin and /usr/lib, that were essential to an operational OS. Home directories, on the other hand, persisted unchanged when new releases of an OS were installed. Some of us had symlinks from /usr into a separate file system to make the distinction easier to maintain across releases.
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:58 AM, Donald ODona <mutiny.mutiny@india.com <mailto:mutiny.mutiny@india.com>> wrote:
> At 27 Sep 2018 12:11:15 +0000 (+00:00) from "Cág" <ca6c@bitmessage.ch <mailto:ca6c@bitmessage.ch>>:
> > Hi,
> >
> Also, what was the
> > rationale of moving the directory to /home?
> originally /usr, placed on a separate disk, was what became /home much later. Then disk space of / was running out and more an more applications and libs were moved to the /usr device.
> Much later in the 80ths much more disk space was available and a separate /home was created. Exacly when I don't know, but there was no /home in Ed. 7 but System V release 3 had it already.
>
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 12:08 Cág
2018-09-27 12:30 ` Alec Muffett
2018-09-27 12:58 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 13:54 ` John P. Linderman
2018-09-27 14:09 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2018-09-27 14:18 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 14:28 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 15:36 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-27 15:54 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-09-27 18:49 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-28 0:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-01 1:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-10-10 3:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-27 17:33 ` Donald ODona
2018-09-27 14:47 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 17:20 ` arnold
2018-09-27 20:42 ` Cág
2018-09-27 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 22:04 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-27 22:18 ` Henry Bent
2018-09-28 8:33 ` Tony Finch
2018-09-28 18:23 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-09-28 16:02 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 17:28 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 19:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 19:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-28 20:30 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-28 20:00 ` Nemo
2018-09-28 21:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-09-27 14:31 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 15:33 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-27 20:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-09-27 23:14 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-28 5:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-09-28 2:39 Doug McIlroy
2018-10-10 14:43 Norman Wilson
2018-10-10 16:26 ` arnold
2018-10-11 19:10 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-10-10 17:08 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-10-11 0:22 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-10-11 2:33 ` David Arnold
2018-10-10 15:26 Noel Chiappa
2018-10-10 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-10 15:48 ` David
2018-10-13 6:58 ` Michael Kjörling
2018-10-12 0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
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