[NTLUG:Discuss] Moving /home

[Kathleen Weaver]

On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:


> You *can* make the trick of mounting a second drive under /home work -
> but
> IMHO that's "A Bad Idea".

Yeah, I figured that out using the test system here at the house.  (this from
my "other" account.

> Instead, put your users directories anywhere on either disk that takes
> your fancy - and in /home put a bunch of symbolic links to the real
> home directories.
> 
>  eg
>     cd /home
>     ln -s /some_other_drive/joe_q_public joe_q_public
> 
> 
> Now, you can move home directories around at will - and so long as
> you keep the symlink in /home pointing at the right place, nobody
> will either know or care that you did it.

Yikes, but I have 200+ students to keep track up.  And it will get worse when I
added the 100+ teachers.  My objection to manually putting people in groups.

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Kathleen Weaver
Grad Student - University of North Texas