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Yea, it’s pretty funny. It used to hold the home directories, but the disk holding the OS ran out of space, so they started putting new utilities in /usr/bin. T
by db48x 4y ago
Yea, it’s pretty funny. It used to hold the home directories, but the disk holding the OS ran out of space, so they started putting new utilities in /usr/bin. The distribution tapes they sent out to everyone who ordered a copy were made directly from the live system, so we all inherited the same quirk. We’ve moved the home directories elsewhere, and now the whole OS is climbing into /usr in order to be atomically mountable. I keep thinking of that Gilbert and Sullivan song with the line “it gradually got so!”.
- rtontic 4y agoEven funnier, now a lot of software pollutes your home directory with shared files and dotfiles, so that space is invaded too. I resort to creating a separate files directory, either in /files, my home directory or in /mnt/files, and store all my local files there.
- db48x 4y agoI’m not as bothered about that. I do have a git repository called dotfiles with some of the more important ones. I then use GNU Stow to install them from there to their customary locations. That helps me keep them in sync across computers.