On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi <s.choi at terabit.org.uk> wrote: >> >> 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) > > 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 :) If you're changing the root of /home to another mount point or directory, say "/export/home", you'll also have to use semanage to set its selinux context to "home_root_t", etc.