moving /home to /var/home

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eliot Stock" <fedora_list at eliotstock.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: moving /home to /var/home


>I have a box here which I want to completely rebuild on every FC release. I 
>have one disk with two partitions. Currently / is mounted on the first 10GB 
>and /var on the rest. To get from FC2 to FC3 I backed up everything I 
>needed from / (/home, some stuff from /etc, that's about it) to DVD and 
>then reinstalled, formatting / but leaving /var alone.
>
> So I'm thinking I might as well just move /home to /var/home. If I just 
> log in in single user mode with no daemons running and move /home to 
> /var/home, then edit /etc/passwd to change everyone's home directories, is 
> that all I need to do? Does anyone know of any packages that assume home 
> is /home, rather than using $HOME?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot.
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I have a similar setup for my computer, the only difference is that I have 
/home as link to a directory in my other partition which contains home 
directories for all the users.

/home -> /backup/home

where /backup/home contains all the home directories of the users on my 
system. This way /home can be used by all the applications despite the fact 
that it is not on the same partition as /. Also during re-install i do not 
have to worry about taking backups.

VJ