Questions tagged [home-directory]

A part of the filesystem owned by a particular user, where the user's files are saved and user-specific configuration files are written and used by applications.

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Best way to move all files from /home backup folder into new /home partition on a different drive

My install had the /home folder inside /. I wanted to add a separate /home partition, so I created a small backup partition on a different drive, added it to /etc/fstab, and used rsync with -aXS to ...
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How can one let two users share the same home directory in Xubuntu 20.04

I want to create two users (e.g. adm1 and adm2), because each of them wants his own password, to which he is used. They shall share the same home directory however, let's call that admx. Is this ...
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Folder /Home is almost full with only one user. Ubuntu 20.04

I just started in this "wonderful" world of Linux 😅 So I installed Ubuntu 20.04 in my laptop with some partitions Boot Swap Home / But today I figured out something strange. Folder home ...
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Change default path of the whole .ssh folder

I have a problem with my server and for some reason (which are not important here) i'm not able to use my default home folder (/home/$USER). At the moment i'm setting my $HOME everytime i login so ...
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deja-dup: How to restore a LUbuntu 18.04.5 backup to Ubuntu 20.04.2, including with app settings and app local folders?

BACKGROUND I have an old PC running LUbuntu 18.04.5, and a newer PC on which I plan to run LUbuntu 20.04.2 or Ubuntu 20.04.2 (which I will first download to a DVD). Indications from the GUI of Deja-...
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KDE Plasma 5 Text Box Border Highlight Not In Correct Position

I recently added Manjaro to my setup that already had Kubuntu 21.04 and Windows 10. Kubuntu and Manjaro are sharing the /home partition, so I'm using the same user account on both systems. Everything ...
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Step-by-step?: How to migrate parts of the Home folder to another PC?

I'm requesting step-by-step help, as I'm an Ubuntu user, not a computer systems/software person. I can follow explicit detailed instructions for Terminal commands. (For example, I do not know how to ...
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Permission denied to a file in ~/.cache directory

When I set an output file in the home directory, the following curl command works. But when I use ~/.cache/mydir, it returns "Permission error". $ ls -al ~/.cache/tera drwxrwxr-x 2 shinichi ...
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What is the .var folder for in my Home Directory

What is the ~/.var folder used for and is it safe to remove the content within this folder?
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Migrating Ubuntu: can I just copy the home directory?

My computer has an Ubuntu 20.04 installation that I want to reinstall (same OS). The home directory is on the same partition as the rest of the OS. Can I simply install all of the programs and then ...
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home directory is full even tho the home partition is not

I have recently increased my home partition's size using GParted, from ~10GB to 150GB. lsblk outputs the following sda 8:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─sda1 ...
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Ubuntu Server Disk Space Recommendation

I'm installing Ubuntu Server 20.04 for a Home Server and small website hosting. Should 50 GB disk space be enough? How much disk space should i give to my /home and /var partitions? Would it work with ...
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Create user home directory on a network share

I have Ubuntu 20.04 machine that I'm preparing for VDI environment. All the VDI VMs will be joined to our domain. By default, each user's Home Directory is created locally. On my NetApp storage I have ...
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My user folder is inside a random folder

Somehow I got the following file structure in ~/ ~ └── todo_app └── ~ I really don't know how this hapenned and how to solve it. cd ~ just goes to ~ and not ~/todo_app/~.
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Change home folder drive

I have an SSD (sdb1 EFI, sdb2 Swap, sdb3 Linux system) and an HD (sda) on my computer that runs Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS. Currently the home folder is on the HD (sda1), but I will remove this HD from the ...
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ls command doesn't show any files in home directory

tommy@LAPTOP-6AUB639F:~$ pwd /home/tommy tommy@LAPTOP-6AUB639F:~$ ls tommy@LAPTOP-6AUB639F:~$
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$HOME for new terminal tabs in a window opened in Files

I am using 21.04. After upgrading from 20.10, I notice the following: If I open Files, then open a (Gnome) Terminal window using 'Open in Terminal', and then open a new tab in that window with SHIFT+...
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Selecting home directory at installing Ubuntu on Win10

I want to install the Ubuntu distro on Win10, but choose the C:/ as home directory so I can use the power of Linux commands on all the folders including the Document folders, desktop, win/app folders. ...
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Why won't a new Ubuntu 20.04.2 install mount old encrypted home directories? [duplicate]

I keep home directories on a separate /home partition. When I reinstall Ubuntu (generally Ubuntu-Mate), I format the root partition but keep /home and create user accounts in the same order with the ...
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How to install kubuntu from Ubuntu and reserve all files in /home folder?

I made 3 partitions 1----> swap partition (8gb) 2---->a 20 gb partition for ubuntu OS[/(root)] 3----> /home partition (200gb approx.) I have some anime and study stuff in home partition and ...
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What is the recommended method to encrypt the home directory in Ubuntu 21.04?

Installing Ubuntu to a new Notebook, I was surprised that I wasn't offered the option to encrypt the home directory any more. I found some vague information that Ubuntu dropped ecryptfs support a ...
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Accidently lost /home during shrinking process with resize2fs

I tried to decrease size of my /home in order to increase my root / which is too small. I tried to achieve this by following this walkthrough. Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of the differences between ...
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Make Windows partition as /home partition

After 4 months of running Ubuntu alongside Windows, I'd like to remove Win to make the partition where is installed as /home partition. I had Windows "just in case something goes wrong" but ...
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I think I messed up moving my home directory to another drive

So yesterday I installed Ubuntu on my computer and removed Windows. I also formatted the drive with windows files after I finished installing Ubuntu. But the thing is that I accidentally installed ...
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move away all zsh conf files from the home folder

I could move all my zsh related files (.zshrc, .zprofile ...) to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh setting the variable ZOTDIR="$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh" but there is a file I can't move: .zprofile. This ...
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Moving the Pictures, Documents, Music into alternative directory

I recently installed ubuntu 18.04 along with windows 10. The installation was done into an SSD which contained the Windows OS, but of course, partitioned. So, the Windows OS is in one partition and ...
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Home directory being symlinked all over

first post in this community. I am using Ubuntu 20.10 installed on WSL 2 and I have not had any issues after upgrading until recently. I noticed that my home directory is being symlinked all over the ...
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How can a lbuntu.iso file be verified on a windows 10 computer?

How can I verify a lubuntu download on Windows 10 computer? Ubuntu shell was installed and runs, but does not see the same directory where the lubuntu.iso file is located. How can sha256sum be run ...
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Bash: Copy to home directory

A bash script is used to copy a file to startup directory. It works fine when the username (ashok) is explicitly given: #!/bin/sh sudo cp /usr/share/applications/syncthing-start.desktop /home/ashok/....
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Issues with Python and potentially other programs after home directory change

Problem Recently I changed my user name and home directory, (from jasper-ubuntu to jasper (both)) I'm concerned this may have brought some issues with Python and potentially other programs. Something ...
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I deleted my /home/desktop. Now my home directory shows up on the desktop [duplicate]

Of course I could easily restore my backup. But I wonder what mechanism is responsible for this behaviour. Cheers mkdir ~/Schreibtisch oder even mkdir ~/Desktop (each followed logout/login) did not ...
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Error when creating a new user

I tried to create a new user account. The following error occurred when I tried to run sudo adduser bob [root@IU:~# sudo adduser bob Adding user `bob' ... Adding new group `bob' (1007) ... ...
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Hard drive failing only on Sunday morning

A couple of weeks ago I started to have a problem with my HDD in my system failing to mount during boot. My system is set up to boot the root partition, / , from an SSD them boot /home from an HDD. ...
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Is it bad practice to git init in the $home directory to keep track of dot files?

I want to backup and sync my dotfiles using github. Since all the dotfiles resides in $home by default, should I just git init in my $home folder, or is that a bad idea? Having performed git init in $...
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How short path to convert my home partition(encrypted) ext4 to btrfs?

What steps should I take to convert my / home (ext4) partition to btrfs It will be worth it, because in the past (2 years or more) I have used this file system, but I had some problems, especially ...
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Why I see these two folders in /media?

I just followed this guide to move my /home folder to a new drive. All went OK, but I got this doubt/question: As far as I know, the /media folder it's where removal media devices appear. Now, and I ...
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OneDrive and Ubuntu 20.04

I can't find information about this anymore so I am guessing this is highly unlikely scenario and probably not possible. However I wondered if someone has ever attempted it. Has anyone tried using ...
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Create debian package with relative install path

I am creating a debian package with a minimal layout (for a hypothetical package called "skate"). Here's the directory structure: ... ├── LICENSE ├── packaging │   └── debian │   └── ...
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Xubuntu: can't see certain directories

So I upgraded my Xubuntu to 20.04. I have the Documents and Pictures folders soft linked to a different partition (ln -s /opt/jdb/documents /home/jonathan/Documents and so on). Everything works fine ...
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Unable to extend ubuntu /home partition

I am new to ubuntu (Ubuntu LTS 20.1) and had installed it when Windows 10 is pre-installed. These are some screenshots from the "Disks" app in ubuntu. Partitions available - see free space ...
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What is the best way to automate my linux setup

At work, I had to rebuild my WSL a number of times and I was wondering what will be the best way to automate my Ubuntu setup. For .dotfiles files, I'm using the bare-git approach (https://www....
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ipelets folder in ubunut 20.04 for ipe

I switched to Ubuntu 20.04 recently. Now I installed ipe extensible drawing editor to draw diagrams in SVG format. I also found an ipelets called ipeplots to draw the graph of a function in ipe. For ...
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Home folder permissions stuck to 700, whatever I do. Help!

I'm getting desperate with the /home/user folder permissions. For some reasons those are now set to 700, causing all sorts of problems. No luck changing them to 755: after a few seconds/minutes, back ...
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Using or deleting default directories in /home

I just migrated from windows to ubuntu. I noticed that in /home/[user]/, there are directories like Documents, Music etc. On windows, these were unusable because many programs would just dump ...
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Replacing HDD with /home with an SSD

My HDD in my system recently started died so I am replacing it with a new M.2 SSD. I run Ubuntu 20.04 where my / (root) partition is on my SSD and my /home directory is on my HDD. Both are the same ...
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Partition on hard drive failing to mount

So my computer runs Ubuntu 20.04 and has a SATA SSD as containing the root, / , directory and another HDD containing the /home partition. About a week ago, I started to have a problem with the HDD and ...
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How to increase /home partition

I am working with Ubuntu 18.04 on dual boot and I am trying to increase my home partition using gparted. My home partition is /dev/sda9 and drive letterE: is on the /dev/sda6 partition. It has almost ...
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How can I move the contents of my home folder to the home folder of another account?

After I updated to Ubuntu 20.04, I've been locked out of my main account (after typing my password it takes me to the "Oh no. Something has gone wrong" page). I've been logging into my ...
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snap folder in root is very heavy while snap folder in home is light

I think my snap folders in root and home are swapped. Indeed, according to the answer of this post, all the configuration files of my snaps should be in the snap folder stored in /home while there ...
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Ubuntu boots into emergency mode, home folder empty

After laptop (Lenovo T520) fell on the ground, my HDD (Crucial_CT240M500SSD3) started making clicking sounds during boot and at startup started receiving following message: 2100: Detection error on ...
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