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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Move home second user to another disk

I have got three hard discs. Ubuntu 20.04 installed on the SSD disc. I have moved the home of user1 to sdb1. That works. How do I make the homedir of user2 point to sdc1? fstab: UUID=uudi-sda1 / ...
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In the windows terminal, can I start ubuntu from current directory while keep it starting from /home/$user/ if clicking the app directly?

I use the Windows subsystem for Linux ubuntu distribution in the Windows Terminal. First I want to start the terminal from the current directory that I open in the file explorer. Therefore, I set &...
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New ubuntu install mounting to an old /home drive and partition - can no longer access due to .Private and .ecryptfs

did a fresh ubuntu mate install (18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS) on a ssd mounting to a HDD with an old /home partition. It was first unable to boot in but I was able to make it work by redirecting the ...
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New MATE install, old home partition and drive not accessible

I've seen a lot of similar questions but not quite like my situation. Clarification: Ubuntu MATE for both old and new, switching installs from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS I have my setup as SSD for Windows/...
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Moving home directory to my HDD and fixing partitions after migrating from Windows

I have a Dell laptop with an SSD (Formerly C: partition in Windows) where I want to keep my OS and package files, while moving home directory to HDD (Formerly D:). Now I am not too familiar with ...
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Can't Move Home Folder to a Partition, Hybird SSD/HDD

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 5 A515-55g. I created an Ubuntu 18.04 dual-boot with Win 10. My hard drive is a hybrid HDD (1TB) & SSD (256GB). PROBLEM The core problem is that Ubuntu does ...
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Best place to stash a file so that BOTH USER AND SUDO can read/write to it

I'm building a large, complex program, mostly in Python, which requires a file to hold the configurations for a particular installation. To access said configurations, Python needs to know where to ...
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Why are Snap packages marketed as "sandboxed" when they are not sandboxed in actual usage

I can open the default chromium snap on my Ubuntu 20.04 computer. I then right click on the defualt homepage, click Save As, navigate to my ~/home directory, and can proceed to save the .html file ...
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Repair root following "rm -r ~" error

I was running a terminal as root and following installing a package noticed I had created a new directory in error. I used rm -r and began typing the directory when my cat jumped up onto my desk. I ...
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How can I mount my home directory after installation

I have installed ubuntu a few months back and I had divided by drive into two partitions, an EFI partition, and a root partition but now I want a separate partition for my home directory but don't ...
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I allocated 36GB to my root and 200 GB to Home but it seems that everything is getting saved in root. How do I switch the allocation?

I allocated 36GB to my root and 200 GB to Home but it seems that everything is getting saved in root. How do I switch the allocation? This is my disk allocation: What is the workaround?
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Mount /home dir from specific directory from external drive

I currently have a Windows system (on an SSD, let's call it C:\) where all the user files (the ${USERNAME}\ dir) are on a separate internal drive (under E:\${USERNAME}\). I will be moving to Ubuntu ...
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Found a folder named '~' in my home dir. Should I be worried?

I just found a folder named: ~ in my home directory. It had a little red cross on its bottom right corner,like root folder have. It was empty. When I deleted it, I was prompted to enter my login ...
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/home partition shows corrupted characters after Ubuntu Studio 20.04 upgrade

Background: Ubuntu Studio 19.10, upgraded to Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS using bootable USB and "Install Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS" option. The system has an SSD /dev/sda and HDD /dev/sdb with ...
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home directory changed

I changed the location of the home directory to a different disk, making changes to fstab but lost information on downloads and old images, is there any way to recover the old home directory or some ...
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Move home folder to NTFS partition ubuntu 20

I want to move /home to a NTFS drive on Ubuntu 20.0 LTS. I tried the steps mentioned here, but it fails after the following steps: sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp sudo rsync -avx /...
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Ubuntu partitions (/, /home & swap) are showing under a Windows extended partition? And, how to use the existing /home partition?

I was getting frequent error messages (usually on Ibus Preferences – which were very frequent, and errors on few on other categories too). So, I re-installed using a LiveCD creating new partitions for ...
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Encrypted home folder gets unmounted just like that

Since yesterday I have encountered something rather odd twice in what is a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 installation (i.e. not upgraded from an older version). The machine is just used by me and there is no ...
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7zip extractor flooded my home folder, any way to undo it?

I recently installed 7zip on my PC to extract some .7z files I had in my Download Folder. However, when I entered: 7z e 'File location here' The terminal result: 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝙾𝚔 𝙵𝚘�...
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How to align Snap's HOME with Linux?

Background When I use n3dr, it looks by default in the home folder for a .n3dr.yaml file. When a snap package is created, the tool complains that it cannot find the file. It turned out that snap has ...
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Where's this extra /home folder come from?

My laptop's home drive is encrypted. When I run cd / && ncdu and navigate to /home, I see this: 50.0 GiB /.ecryptfs 50.0 GiB /dan 22.4 GiB /dan.GynX3uiX I'm pretty sure that aint quite right....
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Merging two desktop systems (back)

Maybe this question is a bit odd, but it puzzled me, and I don't know what to answer. User copied his home folder from desktop to a new laptop some years ago. Now he want to dismiss one of computers (...
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I have a "home" partition, now how do I get my system to put my files there?

When setting up my system, I created a partition and mounted it as "/home", so I assumed my documents would land there, but they do not. When I open and select my user name, Levde, I get a ...
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Which folders are ABSOLUTELY safe to copy from an old 18.04 ubuntu machine to a new 20.04 ubuntu machine (without updating the former to 20.04)

I understand that this question might come off as a borderline carbon copy of How to safely copy home folder from a 10.04 desktop to a new ubuntu 12.04 installation on a notebook? and feel free to ...
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Home User's Permissions Denied

I have 2 users on my server: root andmyuser. I am not exactly sure how, but I messed up myuser's permissions while trying to edit my home directory as root. Now whenever I start up my server, myuser ...
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I cloned a driver package from Github and installed it; Can I delete this folder now?

I downloaded some network drivers from Github and now they are in my home folder. I have already installed them and my wifi works fine now. Can I safely delete this folder, or do I have to keep it to ...
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How to Update Many Symbolic Links at Once

I recently upgraded my computer and along with a new OS I have a new username. Because of that I have a References directory full of links that don't work anymore, but they would if I could simply ...
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tmp directory in $HOME with behavior like /tmp

TL;DR: How can I set up either via a bash command executed as user or a bash command executed only once as sudo a temporary directory in $HOME which has the same behavior as the global /tmp directory? ...
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Partition Scheme for Dual boot on SSD with 16GB RAM

So I have a laptop with 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD (For system files) and 1TB HDD (For data/media files). I’m installing Ubuntu 20.04 alongside my Windows 10 (also on SSD). I have the following 4 questions: ...
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kate external tools [solved]

Kate has a very useful feature: recall external tools, and it let you add your own (bash) scripts. However I noticed that these scripts must be in /home folder: if they are outside, even symlinked in /...
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What is this GPUCache folder that suddenly appears in the home directory?

This folder has been popping up even when I was still in 18.04. I've deleted it before and at random times it just appears again. I've tried hiding it but another folder that's not hidden appears. ...
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Failed to move /home directory to a new partition?

Running Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit on a system with 2 hard drives. System is dual boot: Win-10 & Xubuntu. The PC has 2 disk drives: a small boot flash drive with a 14.7 Gb Partition for Linux and a 169 ...
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How to delete/remove /home partition, and use / as home?

i dual boot with ubuntu and windows. I have a separate /home partition for ubuntu, which i want to delete and create a new partition out of it, which i will share between ubuntu and windows. The ...
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I don't think my /home partition is being used for home

My root partition is running out of space and it doesn't add up as I haven't been installing more than a few hundred MB When I open disk usage analyzer it says home is taking up a lot of space and ...
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How to create a new user with home directory in a different parition

i am trying to add a new user to my system (ubuntu 19.10) from console with a home directory in a separate partition but it seems i cannot do it properly: My default user is 'gep' and the designated ...
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Is it necessary to have a /home and /swap partitions in 20.04

Is it necessary to have a /home partition in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04? I read somewhere about a home file in /root partition... Does the same go to the /swap partition? Can someone set up a guide for New ...
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How can I keep my data partition as /home when installing Ubuntu over Windows?

I have a computer with a disk divided in two partitions. In the first one I have a Windows 10 installation and all the software, in the other one there are my data. I have decided to switch to Ubuntu,...
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Home and swap partition minimum size

What is the minimum size of the home partition and can I use a pre-used NTFS partition as the home partition?
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Can I use systemd-homed with 20.04?

I see that Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa was released with Systemd 245, which supports systemd-homed. Has someone already tried using it? Preferably with LUKS? Is it setup during installation or what steps ...
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How to remove Home Folder icon from desktop in Ubuntu 20.04?

When I start Ubuntu I had my "home/user" in my Desktop. test is my User. How do I make the folder not be on the desktop?
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Partitioning a large SSD (256 GB) for Ubuntu server

Building an Ubuntu server. I want to install the software on an SSD I am no longer using. It is way big (256 GB) for the operating system and not big enough for an actual server data drive. What ...
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Why is cd without arguments not working

I'm used to typing $ cd without arguments to navigate to my home directory in the bash shell. However, since some undetermined time, this does not work anymore and simply does nothing. My HOME ...
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My /home size is 350GB and '/' size is 15GB. But filling /home with data is filling '/' also as /home is under '/'. What do i do?

My /home size is 350 GB and / size is 15 GB. But filling /home with data is filling / also as /home is under /. Gparted shows that I've used up 58.90 GB of the 350 GB but that's not true. Here is ...
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How to unable to switch login domain? directory domain?

My company mostly uses Windows and I am one of the very few who needs Linux; it means that the IT unit does not know much about it! They installed the Ubuntu for me with an active directory enabled to ...
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Change console initial path after mount /home directory from an ext4 partition

I recently followed the Ubuntu guide to move my /home directory and mount it from an ext4 partition on the same disk I recently did. The most important changes and commands I did from the guide where:...
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Dedicated home partition and disk allocation

I have read numerous arguments - both for and against - a dedicated home partition, but in my case, I feel that the pros outweigh the cons. I have a 512 GB SSD in my machine running 18.4.4 LTS. What ...
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Moving /home to root partition

Im trying to move the my home to root.I copied the /home content to /media/temphome using rsync.I log into recovery mode from grub.umount /home. In fstab I made an entry for /home using the uuid of ...
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How do I decrypt a home folder from another machine using fscrypt?

I have 2 machines (machine1 & machine2) both running Ubuntu 18.04. Both machines use fscrypt to encrypt the home folder (using login passphrase). If I remove the hard disk (hd1) from machine1 and ...
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Why home folder on different partition

What is the rationale behind having a seperate partition for home folder? I get it for SWAP space but I prefer to use all of my disk size for root(/) except SWAP and boot. This way I can utilize all ...
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Empty home directory

I just fixed an issue with a login loop, using this solution. So now I can log into my account again, but the home directory looks empty. I can see my old folders (Documents, Pictures, PycharmProjects ...
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