Second User Space

[malachor]

I added a second user space as /home2 and now i have a few questions;

Can I have the system start sharing the drives and save them on which ever has space?

or

do I need to relocate users to free up space on drive 1?
if so, how?

 

[jmstacey]

You can change the partition that user home directories are created on. (Seach the forum for exact instructions).

The only way that I can think of to achieve your "auto selector" would be to use the script DA executes prior to creating the account and determine which partition has more free space, then change the useradd config to create the home directory on that partition.

 

[malachor]

do you know how to move users?

 

[jmstacey]

Move users from the 1st to 2nd partiton to balance eachother out initially?

I've never done it, but it's possible. Besides physically moving the users files, you would have to edit all config files updating the home path.

 

[malachor]

ya, as a last resort i am going to try moving larger users files to the new drive... but I dont know how to change the point to location...

I can edit the httpd file for the user account i moved and change all the references from "home" to "home2" but after restarting httpd it still doesn't point to the new location