Re: /home as a symlink?

[Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>]

Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> writes:

> Thanks for your response.  That would be the natural way of doing it
> if I were partitioning a new disk.  But I don't want to do that, and
> the target disk also has other data, so /home cannot be a complete
> partition.

IIUC, you have a directory on that disk where you want to move the
home directories of your users i.e. /some/path/to/homes to, as well as
some some other directories on that disk.

You could then mount that disk to some mount point, say /data, and
then mount --bind /data/some/path/to/homes /home.

urs