Re: /home as a symlink?
> > > On 2020/10/16 at 11:23 am, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> > > > Can I simply move the files and then make /home a symlink to /disk2/home?
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 01:43:59PM +0200, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> I'm already running my Debian with $HOME set to a different path:
> /home.disk2/<username>
>
> All I needed to change was the /etc/passwd entry: to the new, different
> location; nearly eveything worked fine since then.
>
> I started with this constellation years ago and never changed the path
> afterwards. So I don't have any experience in case of a move.
>
> The only "program" which caused issues in the past was apparmor.
> For this, I modified: /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/site.local
> and added: @{HOMEDIRS}+=/home.disk2
The other points I would bring up, when moving user home directories:
1) The user(s) in question should not be logged in. If you're moving
the entire /home then all users should be logged out. Log in
directly as root, on the text console if possible.
2) Any long-running user processes may continue to hold open files in
the old file system. Either kill off any such processes, or reboot
the system after the change.
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