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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 10:54:46 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>UNIX / POSIX partitions are not limitedon.
>
>On POSIX, partitions can be mounted anywhere

Hi,

yes, and even Linux which is neither UNIX nor POSIX nor has any
reliable standard (just the Linux Standard Base (LSB), which is no
standard at all) in this regard is similar to POSIX.

FWIW the mount point of /home can be set by fstab, but actually /home
not necessarily is the path to a user's home.

One of my installs has got a user "rocketmouse". The user's home is
/home/rocketmouse/ . Another user is "chuser", this user's home is
/.chuser/.home/ .

[rocketmouse at archlinux share]$ grep -erocketmouse -echuser /etc/passwd
rocketmouse:x:1000:1000::/home/rocketmouse:/bin/bash
chuser:x:1001:1001::/.chuser/.home:/bin/bash

Btw. /ets/fstab isn't really used by Ubuntu and other systemd distros.
The fstab entries get converted into systemd mount units at startup.

Regards,
Ralf