The question that triggered this was in fact about the home directory, I think and the chapter about creating users does not mention homedirs at all. One has to know that the -m on adduser will do the trick.
The whole guide is built around /boot, swap, / and this is well enough for any newbie IMHO. Partitioning could require a full guide indeed, any volunteer ? On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 19:23, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:02:15AM +0200, Tiemo Kieft wrote: > > Will idling in #gentoo-doc BennyC came up with the following issue: > [... More partitions ...] > > Bah, every user wants a special partitioning. The current partitioning is the > easiest to explain since we don't have to care about resizing (everything is > inside "/"). > > We already say to the user that he can have seperate partitions for whatever > he likes: > > """ > Note that if you are setting up Gentoo Linux with separate /usr or /var > filesystems, these would get mounted to /mnt/gentoo/usr and /mnt/gentoo/var > respectively. > """ > > It isn't feasible to describe every possible place where you might want a > seperate partition. My laptop for instance has 13 partitions (yeah, now > you're all wondering why I have 13 partitions, don't you? :), my desktop 7, > etc. > > The question that should really be answered then is "How do I partition my > system most optimally" and that question is *not* easily answered. > > Mvg, > Sven Vermeulen -- ______________________________ < Xavier Neys > < Gentoo Documentation Project > < http://www.gentoo.org > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \ \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||--WWW | || || -- [email protected] mailing list
