Creating /home

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:32:28PM -0400, William Park wrote:
> > Is that sufficient for Ubuntu to create new user accounts there?

I think all the tools may be hardcoded to use /home.  Mount your drive
there.  Or symlink /home to /storage2tb/home.  No useful point to trying
to mess with something that works.

I have seen systems that used /u or /u1. /u2, etc for users, but they
had custom account management tools to do it.

> You use any directory as user's home.
> 
> Edit /etc/fstab.

Actually /etc/passwd is a better place to change to say where a user's
home dir is.

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

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