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| From | Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: /home as a symlink? |
| Date | 2020-10-16 13:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <B0vMu-4E9-13@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <B0unn-3Gv-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0uGK-3MZ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0v06-48S-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | less than infinite |
Jesper Dybdal composed on 2020-10-16 12:18 (UTC+0200): > Yoann LE BARS wrote: >> Jesper Dybdal wrote: >>> Can I simply move the files and then make /home a symlink to /disk2/home? I can't think of a reason why you couldn't, but maybe there is a reason that escapes me why you shouldn't. >> You can, but I think a better way is to simply mount the partition as >> /home. > 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. Why do you think the presence of non-home data on a filesystem prevents its use mounted to /home? /home is a perfectly good place to put "other" data on my 40 PCs. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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/home as a symlink? Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2020-10-16 11:40 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2020-10-16 12:00 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2020-10-16 12:20 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net> - 2020-10-16 12:30 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-10-16 13:10 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2020-10-16 13:50 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-10-16 14:00 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2020-10-16 14:00 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk> - 2020-10-16 14:10 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-10-16 16:00 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-10-16 20:30 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-10-16 21:10 +0200
Re: /home as a symlink? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2020-10-17 22:50 +0200
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