On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers Rudi@softdux.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi s.choi@terabit.org.uk wrote:
Hi there,
As you know, $HOME is generally located at "/home/$username" by default.
I would like to re-locate all users' $HOME directories to something like "/export/home/$username" without having a hassle/trouble.
Initially, I've thought of just copying them to the new directory (under /export/home/xxx), but guessed it might trouble for the normal use (I'm pretty new to CentOS, although many experiences with Debian/Ubuntu).
Is there any good tricks (or caveats) when moving users' home directory cleanly with CentOS? (I'm with CentOS 5.5 x86_64)
Cheers, Soo-Hyun
The easiest way would be to move (or copy) everything in /home to /export/home, and then remount /home on /export/home in your fstab.
Before you remount it, you may want to rename it to say /oldhome or /home2 or something like that, and then if everything works fine then you simply delete it :)
This tends to break symlinks and hard-coded script locations. In particular, Samba and Apache make some assumptions about where home directories live that you might want to resolve if you enable homedir access for or public_html access for those tools.