On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi <s.choi at 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 :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532