Creating /home

[William Park]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:06:33PM -0400, Stephen wrote:
> So I had /home on a failing drive.
> 
> I used usermod -d /path/to/new/homedir/ username
> 
> to move *my* home drive to another volume, and copied the data. This was 
> until I could ...
> 
> I swapped the drive with a good one (thanks WP) and now want to return 
> to a more or less normal structure.
> 
> I mounted the new volume as /storage2tb
> 
> I want to mkdir /storage2tb/home and use that as a normal home directory.
> 
> Is that sufficient for Ubuntu to create new user accounts there?

You use any directory as user's home.

> Or do I need specify somewhere that home is /storage2tb/home ?

Edit /etc/fstab.

> 
> And what permissions should I give to /storage2tb/home ?

Same as your old /home (755, root:root), which would be by default.

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William
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