[TUHS] The origin of /home

Nemo cym224 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 02:02:55 AEST 2018


On 27/09/2018, Cág <ca6c at bitmessage.ch> wrote (in part):
> Hi,
>
> The earliest I've found to be in the FHS from '94. Are there any earlier
> examples of a home directory being at /home instead of /usr/$(user)? Are
> there any current Unix systems that don't use /home by default (except
> OSX)?

This is a bit late but Solaris uses /export/home by default.

N.

> Does anybody here do it intentionally? Also, what was the
> rationale of moving the directory to /home?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> caóc



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