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Re: /home as a symlink?

From Yoann LE BARS <yoann@le-bars.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: /home as a symlink?
Date 2020-10-16 12:30 +0200
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Hello everybody out there!

On 2020/10/16 at 12:18 pm, Jesper Dybdal wrote:
> 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.

	Alright, I did not get that.

	Well, in this case, you can indeed make some symlink. In my experience,
you can either use a symlink to replace /home or to replace /home/user.
Which will be the best way? Well, I guess it depends on what you prefer.

	Best regards.

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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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