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Re: /home as a symlink?

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On 2020-10-16 13:49, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> IIUC, you have a directory on that disk where you want to move the
> home directories of your users i.e. /some/path/to/homes to, as well as
> some some other directories on that disk.
>
> You could then mount that disk to some mount point, say /data, and
> then mount --bind /data/some/path/to/homes /home.

Thanks!   I hadn't thought of that interesting alternative to a symlink.

Also many thanks to everybody else who answered.

-- 
Jesper Dybdal
https://www.dybdal.dk

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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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