Is it normal to only have "/" as an option for a user home dir?

[Aaron Matheson]

Hi all

Please let me know if this has been posted, but I have not been able to find the answer to this exact question.

I mentioned this question in my other post ("Can not re-mount UFS hdd") and decided that it might be better to ask this in a new question.

I noticed that the only option for a user home dir was "/" (root), when creating a new user account. Not even the "mnt" dir was in the drop-down tree structure (see attached screenshot "add new user"). But when i do a "ls" from the cmd line, see below:

[root@freenas ~]# cd /
[root@freenas /]# ls
.cshrc boot etc mnt sbin .profile cfg home ports sys
.snap conf lib proc tmp COPYRIGHT data libexec rescue usr bin dev media root var

"mnt" is there, and the other drives are mounted as per below

[root@freenas /]# cd mnt
[root@freenas /mnt]# ls

.snap 2tb_drive 429gb 570gb md_size

when i list the deceives in "/dev" the limited to *da*:

[root@freenas /dev]# ll *da*
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x57 Feb 26 11:12 ada0
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x59 Feb 26 11:12 ada0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x60 Feb 26 11:12 ada0s5
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x62 Feb 26 11:12 ada0s6
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x5b Feb 26 11:12 ada1
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x5d Feb 26 11:12 ada2
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x64 Feb 26 11:12 ada2s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x78 Feb 26 11:12 da0
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x79 Feb 26 11:12 da0s1
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x7d Feb 26 11:12 da0s1a
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x7a Feb 26 11:12 da0s2
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x7b Feb 26 11:12 da0s3
crw-r----- 1 root operator - 0x7c Feb 26 11:12 da0s4

and the 3tb drive is listed as ada1 when i view disk on the GUI, see attached screenshot "GUI - list of drives".

Does this have something to do with my ufs not remounting?

 

[dlavigne]

It's probably a limitation of UFS as FreeNAS is designed to take advantage of ZFS and datasets.

I haven't used a UFS volume. If you manually create a user's home directory first (e.g. mkdir /usr/home/user1) , does it appear in the drop-down menu?