Re: [CentOS] Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:29:28PM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:

The culprit? NetworkManager has /home open. I can't figure out *WHY*.

NetworkManager.service has 'ProtectHome=read-only', which keeps NM from writing there. I presume namespacing /home in this way counts against unmounting it. This is a good security protection for everyone running NM, so I can see it being worth the tradeoff vs. being able to move or remove /home on a live system.

(It also has ProtectSystem=true, which mounts /usr and /boot read-only as well.)

If you wanted to change this, drop ProtectHome=false into /etc/systemd/system/NetworkMananger.service.d/override.conf (possibly by using sudo systemctl edit foo NetworkMananger).