To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: moving /home to /var/home
I have a box here which I want to completely rebuild on every FC release. I have one disk with two partitions. Currently / is mounted on the first 10GB and /var on the rest. To get from FC2 to FC3 I backed up everything I needed from / (/home, some stuff from /etc, that's about it) to DVD and then reinstalled, formatting / but leaving /var alone.I have a similar setup for my computer, the only difference is that I have /home as link to a directory in my other partition which contains home directories for all the users.
So I'm thinking I might as well just move /home to /var/home. If I just log in in single user mode with no daemons running and move /home to /var/home, then edit /etc/passwd to change everyone's home directories, is that all I need to do? Does anyone know of any packages that assume home is /home, rather than using $HOME?
Cheers,
Eliot.
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/home -> /backup/home
where /backup/home contains all the home directories of the users on my system. This way /home can be used by all the applications despite the fact that it is not on the same partition as /. Also during re-install i do not have to worry about taking backups.
VJ
