/home as a symlink?

From	Jesper Dybdal <jd-debian-user@dybdal.dk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	/home as a symlink?
Date	2020-10-16 11:40 +0200
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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?

Do either of these run a risk of files under /home being needed before 
/disk2 is mounted (it is in fstab)?

Thanks,
Jesper

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Jesper Dybdal
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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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