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Subject: RE: Question about /home and /usr
From: Kevin Rooney <Kevin_Rooney@sw.cc.va.us>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:20:31 -0400

Michael J. Glanovsky wrote:
-->Am I correct that other Unixs (such as AIX) frequently don't 
-->have a /home
-->directory, putting user accounts in /usr or /usr/local instead?
-->
 --snip--
Yes, that's true.  For instance, FreeBSD uses /usr/home/. However, I do like
the separate partitioning of /home that Linux generally uses.  Of course,
you can set it up however you like.

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