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Switch from /usr/home to /home as default home directory on FreeBSD
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Authored by dereckson on Sep 16 2024, 23:38.
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Summary

Historically, FreeBSD has created home directories under /usr/home,
with a symlink from /home to /usr/home. That choice was motivated
when an UFS partition was divided into labels, with / relatively
small, and /usr larger. This is less relevant with one big partition.

This change acknowledges that change, and fixes an issue when creating
ZFS datasets for home directories: on new FreeBSD 14 installations,
to create <pool>/usr/home/<username> dataset would fail, as <pool>/usr/home
does not exist.

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Tested on new WindRiver installation

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