[SOLVED] Quick Question: Possible negative impact of a "non-standard" home location?

[cjchand]

Folks,

After a failed upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04, I opted to shrink the 8.04 partition and build a new partition to dedicate as the root partition. This also means that I want to keep the previous partition as my /home partition.

I have managed to get things working by altering my two user accounts' /home directories in System -> Users and Groups. The slight side effect of this is that I have to specify the home directories as "/home/home/<userID>" since the user's folders are not in the root of the new /home partition.

Things are working just fine, but I wanted to see if there was a major reason I should not take this approach. Is there some unforeseen consequence for having this kind of setup?

I assume not, since you have the ability to change your /home directory, but I wanted to avoid any major caveats in the future.

Many thanks in advance for any input!

Cheers,
CJC

[oldos2er]

In Linux, there's no such thing as a "non-standard" location for /home. As long as you have your fstab set up correctly, you should be fine.

[22flames]

yah man honestly that sounds good you shouldent have any problems :)

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[cjchand]

Thanks for the replies, folks.

@oldos2er: I think I didn't word my question properly. Let me take another shot, if I may.

I was able to edit fstab to point to use my old partition as /home. The question was whether or not it's required that users' folders be directly under /home, as opposed to what I have currently with the path being /home/home/<userID>.

From the sounds of things, it seems this isn't an issue, but just wanted to be sure.

Again, many thanks for the quick and knowledgeable input!

Cheers,
CJC

[22flames]

no its not required and the guy is right there is no non standerd home .... go LINUX :)

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