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How to change the default home directory?

On a server, I have mounted a big drive on /home2 in order to store all the user accounts. Supposedly in order to set the default directory to /home2, we are supposed to edit /etc/default/useradd ...
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How do I make permanent the changing of my /home folder [duplicate]

How do I make permanent the changing of my /home folder I changed the /home folder using this command: sudo mount /dev/sda2 /home It works fine but, when I restart, the change is lost. ¿ How do I ...
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forgot home partition when installing ubuntu

I forgot to create a home partition during the installation of ubuntu 17.04, Whether it will cause problems?
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How to set up a separate drive for documents/users?

I am going to make a dual boot install of Ubuntu. I have two drives, 1 ssd and 1 hard drive. I will install /root, /home and swap on the ssd as people say that will be faster. Then for documents they ...
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Home directory on external drive

I have two (K)Ubuntu-computers in two different homes. I want them to share the user directory, however. The optimum would be to have a local user profile on my hard drive and one on my external ...
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Ubuntu goes into emergency mode after I moved /home dir

I need help with a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 install. The installation went without any problem. After it, I moved my /home directory to larger disk. Ubuntu was installed onto small 24 Gb SSD. I moved /home ...
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Can I run Ubuntu on this setup? [closed]

I've put together a build for a desktop pc but I'm not sure if it can run Ubuntu. If it requires some minor workarounds there's no problem, but I'd like to know what to expect. If needed I can switch ...
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After changing drive for $HOME can't run Teamviewer

I wanted to changed the location of my $HOME directory from a 200 GB SSD to a 2 TB SATA. I did it according to the second answer found here. Now Teamviewer will not start any more. I if I try to start ...
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How do I use /dev/sdb1 to reduce the strain on /dev/sda1

I have the following setup : Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 1009440 4 1009436 1% /dev tmpfs 205004 1076 203928 1% /run /dev/...
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How do I change location for the "standard" folders? (Images, Documents, Downloads etc)

My desktop has an 240GB SSD that i use for the OS and a 2TB HDD which I use for extra space. In Windows (all versions), it is possible to use the HDD for "Images", "Documents", "Music" etc. How do I ...
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How do I setup Ubuntu for SSD and HDD? [duplicate]

I have a feeling that this question has been asked before, but I was wanting to know if anyone has installed Ubuntu on an SSD and have their /home folder on an HDD? The reason I ask is I have a ...
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Moving home folder location

To put this as simply as possible, I know nothing about Linux and every guide I've seen is extremely confusing and most times doesn't work. I want to burn a windows 7 ISO onto a flash drive because ...
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Mounting a physically separate drive as my home folder? [duplicate]

I have 1 TB SSD and a 120 GB SSD. I'd like to use the 120 drive for / /var /etc and so on and make a very minimal home folder on that drive. I would then like to mount another drive (which I would ...
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How to move "home" to a separate partition in recovery mode? [duplicate]

I accidentally screwed my system so I only am able to boot in the repair mode. Anyway, I want to reinstall it (upgrade to 15.10, if that matters). So I want to save my "home" directory. I have access ...
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Partitioning SSDs [duplicate]

I'm a lifelong Windows user, and absolutely new to Ubuntu. I just built this new computer and wanted Ubuntu on it, but there's a bit of a learning curve... I have a 32GB SSD (sdb) that I would like ...
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