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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How to remove/hide personal directories on desktop screen?
How do I remove/hide my personal directories (Music, Documents, etc) from the desktop?
After an update, my desktop changed and is showing my personal directories (Music, Documents, etc). Before the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 rewriting user-dirs.dirs
I am using Ubuntu 22.04. After one update, the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs has changed the lines
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
So the folder Desktop and ...
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How Do I Make A Secondary Drive Accessible Through The Main Directory Or In A Way Where Programs That Don't Have A Means To Access It In Their System
I know that title was a bit convoluted, but I am running on 22.04, I have a Samsung M.2 SSD, and Seagate HDD both connected directly to the motherboard. The issue I keep running into is the secondary ...
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Only an expert can solve this [closed]
I tried to mount my /dev/sdc HDD to /home.
Then I tried to create a symlink to /home because my sdc HDD is 16tb.
Basically, I got what I wanted, but now everything is complicated:
wget doesn't work.
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Empty XDG user directories turn into symbolic links
For some reasons, when an XDG user directory (i.e., Desktop, Downloads, Templates, Public, Documents, Music, Pictures, or Videos) is empty, it turns into a symbolic link after some time. Below is an ...
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Create encrypted home after Ubuntu LTS 22.04 installation
I would like to create an encrypted home directory for my users on already installed ubuntu. What is the best way to do this ?
Kind regards,
Sylvain
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show desktop not Home
I have my computer with dualboot Ubuntu 22.04.3 and Windows 11. My objective is to share the desktop information, images, documents, and downloads between both systems. The method I used was to create ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS: my /home folder "broke"
I was trying to use xcalib, and ran into an error (see xcalib error - unsupported ramp size) and followed Anwar's method, rebooted my computer and then this happened.
Gnome see of /home folder
My ...
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how to move home screen folders to file manager?
Today Morning i using laptop then i restarting to my laptop then file manager folders coming to home screen so how to move home screen folders to main file manager please help?
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Why my home partition is 5gb and not showed in df -H nor Gparted?
after experiencing a persistent issue with Ubuntu (black screen after booting) that I was able to bypass sometimes by running the recovery mode or reinstalling Ubuntu from terminal (that was ...
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why cannot umount an lvm partition?
I have an Ubuntu Server 22.04. The disks are managed using LVM partition. My /var partition needs a size increasing. So I thought to reduce the /home size, so that I could increase /var.
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How can I take a '/home' on its own partition, and use it after distribution upgrade?
Current: 20.04 with /home on its own partition.
Target: Install 22.04 on '/', and then switch the (then-new) 'home' subdir, to utilize the separately-partitioned /home.
My concern includes user names &...
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Bungled up home screen (Desktop)
I was wondering if anyone has seen this and have a solution without a reinstall?home path folders and such on home screen
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Clean reinstall Ubuntu while recovering former account
While tinkering (too much) with my machine, I deleted some apparently key files from the Ubuntu kernel on v22.*. I then thought I could "clean" reinstall just the system from a USB (that ...
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VirtualMin Changing default document_root for Virtual Servers
I am currently using the latest version of Virtualmin on an Ubuntu server. I need to migrate several websites from an old server to this new server. In the old server, all the websites are located in ...
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Clone separate / and home to larger drive
I currently have 23.04 installed on a 500Gb SSD, with separate root (50Gb) and Home (450Gb). Both partitions are filling up so I plan to get a larger SSD.
If I create two partitions on the new SSD (...
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How can I prevent folders in a user’s home directory from being displayed on his desktop?
After installing Xubuntu 22.04 on a laptop previously running with Xubuntu 18.04 (not altering its existing partition /home, I just designated its existing partition as /home during install), I had to ...
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I want to create a new disk on which to install programs
before installing Ubuntu I want to create a disc where the programs in Ubuntu will be installed. I have two discs, SSD and HDD. I will install Ubuntu on the SSD, but I want to create a separate HDD ...
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Shared Home Folder Between 2 Linux OS Trippled Booted W. Win11
I need advice... I have hardware, a Huawei D15 laptop. 512GB SSD. I tripled booted it with Windows 11, Ubuntu 22.04 (the correct way this time), and Linux Mint Debian Edition.
The Win11 Partition has ...
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What is the correct way to not be using the home directory during a backup of it?
So I obviously shouldn't just run rsync backing up /home while I'm plainly logged in, as the state of settings files could be inconsistent or whatever else, since /home is being used.
One solution is ...
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Is it possible to move the /home directory without reinstalling the whole computer? [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu 18.04 on a 50 GB SSD partition (+9.9 GB swap). I also have a mechanical drive with >= 105GB free Ext4 partition in that computer. I'm running out of space on that SSD partition. I'd ...
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Cannot connect to home WiFI - Repeated 'Authentication required'
Problem Description
I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and I cannot connect to my home WiFi internet connection. Every time I click on my home's WiFi connection, it asks for the password, and ...
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storage ssd to show in files
In Ubuntu 18.04.2 i could bookmark SSD 3 storages to see them (had them named)in /home where are also movies, pictures, download, documents folders.
I can not make them placed to see the same way in ...
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Mounting multiple home directories, for multiple users, to multiple partitions
So my family computer had a bad case of everyone using windows and it's slow AF, when there's a perfectly good ubuntu installed on the SSD...
So I switched over to it, updated to JJ, got everything ...
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Changing the User path
Failed to attach disk 'C:\Users\Kam\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\ext4.vhdx' to WSL2: The system cannot find the path specified.
Kam was the previous ...
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Desktop now showing home folders / files. Solutions tried haven't worked
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'd just started to get to grips with 20.04 when my desktop suddenly started showing the home directory contents.
I've found a couple of possible solutions, but they haven't ...
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What is the difference between `$HOME/bin` and `$HOME/.local/bin` ? When to use use one over the other?
According to this post, $HOME/.local/bin is used to store user-specific binaries. But I see in this post that $HOME/bin serves a similar purpose.
What am I missing? When should I use one over the ...
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Running out of room in /home
I wanted to run Ubuntu on my primary system so I installed a second hard drive, a 500GB. I let the install program do all of the partitioning. I tried to move files off of my Windows 7 drive, but I ...
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Ubuntu not enough storage space [duplicate]
I don't have enough storage space in my home directory. How can I increase the storage without reinstalling Ubuntu? Here is what my partitions look like.
I don't know what it means. I don't need /dev/...
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Home Directory Deletion
For some reason I had the remnants of an old encrypted drive in my home directory from a previous distro that I had copied over long ago. Basically my home directory only contained the encrypted ...
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files moving by themself
I have Ubuntu (20.04 LTS installed with latest security updates)
The device had a newly harddrive installed which I formatted first and then installed Ubuntu on.
Files on my Desktop screen keep ...
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What is the size of /home and /root partition that i should allocate on my ubuntu machine [duplicate]
I have 280 Gb of storage on my laptop and i am installing ubuntu on my laptop and i plan on utilising the full space and i wanted to know that the partitioning should be like with the exact space that ...
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Configure exim4 in home directory
I recently installed exim4 to use sendmail via smart host. Everything works fine, but I had to edit these two system files:
/etc/email-addresses:
myuser: mymail@provider.tld
/etc/exim4/passwd....
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Could not chdir to home directory
I have configured my machine with autofs to mount an LDAP users directory when they log in to a machine. I have created a directory in home called /guests. However when the LDAP user logs in, it isn't ...
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Mount samba shared directory as user home folder on the guest virtual machine
I want to run several Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machines based on libvirt that share the same home folder for the user.
On the host I created the following samba shared folder:
lsblk
sdd ...
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Emergency mode erased all my files
Sometimes it happens that after an update my Ubuntu 20.04 LTS reboots in emergency mode. First time I ran `fsck /dev/sda1` and solved the problem with no bad consequences. But second time it happened, ...
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Mount internal hdd so as i can symlink my home subdirectories like downloads, documents to it
I am trying to dual boot my machine. Machine has a 128gb ssd and 1TB HDD. I gave 100 gbs of HDD for Windows(As i use it rarely).
For ubuntu 20.04,(which i am installing. Not yet installed)
i am giving ...
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how to access my personal file in unbunto [duplicate]
I'm new to programming, i start use windows-subsystem-for-linux and I don't know how to find my personal documents, my downloads, etc. I tried the path "env" "find" with a path but ...
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/home partition erased after install
Tried to "upgrade" ubuntu 20.04->22.04, by doing clean install
In partition manager I've killed old / partition (omit that, imagine i wanted dual boot) created new / partition and checked ...
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how to configure a user's home to reside in a loop device?
I'm trying to configure our guest account to reside in a loop device mounted to /home/gast.
On startup the loop device gets created via this line in /etc/fstab:
tmpfs /home/gast tmpfs size=3g user
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Unable to find /home/username
I was installing a software app on Ubuntu 22.04.
After installation was complete, my system shows this:
I can't find my home, document, desktop folders.
I think while installing the software, I ...
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By accident I removed Desktop folder in Gnome desktop. Now I see all folders and files from ~/home on my desktop screen
I was doing some "house kipping" aka deleting some ancient files and folders to free the space on my disk. I worked in Doublecmd and somehow marked the Desktop folder. After deleting ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu 22.04 with fscrypt encrypted HOME directory?
Unfortunately, an encrypted home partition in Ubuntu 22.04 is not going to be unencrypted by default unless someone does some tricky preparations.
Even if one does, it will not be possible to use it ...
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How do I move usr/ directory to /home/usr partition?
I've got dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 in my computer and some days ago I'm frequently getting the "free up disk space" advice in my root partition (20GB).
When I check the disk usage, I can see /...
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Intended location for personal code
For my entire Ubuntu life I've put code directories, usually git repos, in ~/Documents. According to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HomeFolder, all personal files can go here. Ostensibly however, ~/...
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Can only boot into live session after moving home directory
First, something happened yesterday that started eating up my disk space till there was 0% left on my 1 TB ssd. (I have a suspicion of what may have caused it, but unsure). So I used these ...
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Mounting Home Using AutoFS and CIFS and Kerberos to Network Path
I am attempting to implement AutoFS on realm joined Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machines to mount the user's home path via Kerberos authentication and a SMB/CIFS share but keep hitting a wall and am uncertain ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 root and home paritions problem / low disk on root filesystem [duplicate]
Ookay, so this morning I got message I've only 300 mb free space on root filesystem.So I cleaned everything I could. Now there are 5.2GB available.
But, (i'm novice user) I see that I might have made ...
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"ERROR: Cannot proceed" when trying to encrpyt home directory in Ubuntu 20.04
I installed ecryptfs-utils cryptsetup. Then I created a new user and assigned sudo privileges. After that, I tried to to encrypt the main user's home directory and ran into an error.
encryption_user@...
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App groupings disappear after every reboot (may be problem in the renaming home folder)
Ubuntu 22.04 TLS. I group some applications (e.g. LibreOffice apps to one folder: Office) but after reboot I see this apps ungrouped again.
I bought my computer with preinstalled Ubuntu and already ...
