problem moving a user's home directory to a new location

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Mon Jun 23 05:58:53 UTC 2008


Jay Ridgley wrote:
> I am going to continue using /home2/user as the home directory, since
> that is where I want it to be and everything appears to be working with
> the exception of the item noted above... weird...
>
> I am not going to delete the old home directory until I know for sure
> that things are fixed.

It is always wise not to delete things if you don't know it they are still 
needed. I would rename the old home directory to find out if anything 
relies on it. Make it /home.bak or something like that. If it is still 
there, you will never know if you still need it.


Nils




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