> > > 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.