On Fri 16 Oct 2020 at 11:23:13 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I currently have /home in the root partition. I am considering moving > it to a different existing partition. > > Can I simply move the files and then make /home a symlink to /disk2/home? > > Or perhaps set up a symlink for each user: /home/user1 => /disk2/home/user1?
This has the advantage that you can move users' individual home directories at different times, whenever they're not logged in, because they don't all have to reside in one location. > Do either of these run a risk of files under /home being needed before > /disk2 is mounted (it is in fstab)? No, fstab is processed before users are alowed to login. My own systems boot up and run with /home empty¹ (just a mount point directory). Apart from root, the only user who can login is "unlock", because their home directory is in /var/local/home/, and the only thing they can do is unlock an encrypted partition and mount it on /home, whereupon they get logged out. ¹ I lie: they contain an empty file: # ls -l /home/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 27 2019 0 # Cheers, David.
