Timeline for Can the /home folder in Linux contain anything else but user folders?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:45 | comment | added | Braden Best |
@OganM By using the ~ shorthand or the $HOME environment variable. Most users will have these available. But in the case of no home directory, most programs default to /etc as a backup when they can't find a home directory. E.g. if ~/.vimrc doesn't exist, then vim will look for /etc/vimrc or /etc/vim/vimrc
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 19:26 | comment | added | OganM | A quick question, since no program should rely on it's location, how do programs decide to place the dotfiles to the home directory? | |
| May 27, 2014 at 11:36 | comment | added | James N | @R It's formatted in ntfs, and the symlinks set up seem to be functioning - have I missed something? | |
| May 26, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | @JamesN: If the other HD is formatted for use by windows, the problem is not going to be what it contains, but the fact that it's unsuitable for many uses that applications might expect to work. For instance, lacking symlink and hardlink support, case-sensitive filenames, fifos, unix sockets, ... | |
| May 26, 2014 at 17:21 | vote | accept | James N | ||
| May 26, 2014 at 17:21 | comment | added | James N | Thanks for the info - yes it is Linux. I ask this because I wanted to mount my second HDD as /home, and it contains folders other than my W7 user folder. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 17:07 | history | answered | terdon♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |