Linux, can a home directory be symlinked?
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I have a second large storage hdd mounted in Ubuntu in /media/storage. I would like my home directories for me and all future users of the system to be located on this storage drive as well. I was thinking that the easiest way to accomplish this was to move /home to /media/storage/home and then cre…
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What you describe is one strategy that will work. Another would be mounting the drive at /home directly, instead of at /media/storage. If you did this you'd probably want to move any existing data into other folders so you don't end up with extra /h…
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