If I understand the question correctly, here is my 2 cents. I simply move the original '/home' dir to a partition of my liking then create a symlink from / to that partition. Then I rename /home to something else. Has worked perfectly for me so far H. On 16 Jan 2009 at 10:02, Globe Trotter wrote: > > I'm curious, why not just have /home be on a different > > partition? > > That seems more elegant to me (and would work better with > > SELinux as > > well, though you might not care if you disable SELinux or > > run in > > permissive mode :). > > Thanks! I wonder that myself, sometimes, but it is for historical reasons. In the days that there was no rpms, I used to keep locally installed programs there and did not want it wiped out with every new tinkering. I still use some of them, but all options are set to use /usr/local/trotter, etc. > > > > Previously, I would add skip the create user step and > > log in as root > > > and then create user with directory using > > system-config-users. > > > However, this is apparently no longer allowed, and I > > am required to > > > create an user. How do I get this user to have its > > "home" in > > > /usr/local/trotter? I guess one way out is to create a > > fake user and > > > then go in, use system-config-users and then delete > > the fake user. > > > Is there a more elegant way? > > > > This is the sort of task I'd do from a text console > > (but then, I say > > that sort of thing a lot ;). If you create the user > > trotter at first > > boot, use CTRL-ALT-F2 at the login screen to get to a > > console. Then > > login as root and use something like: > > > > # usermod -m --home /usr/local/trotter trotter > > > > The -m option moves the current home dir to the new dir. > > Obviously, > > you don't want trotter logged in when you do this. > > Thanks! However, does it not wipe out the /usr/local/trotter directory. I just want to get rid of the /home/trotter and make everything point to /usr/local/trotter directory (which exists from an earlier installation). > > I haven't actually tried this, but am just wondering. > > Isn't it is a better option to allow for a home directory to be chosen at installation? I have never figured out why Fedora does not allow this choice (with a default). > > Trotter > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
