I want to make a comment on this thread that is at least a little bit (maybe a lot) off point, it is more a suggestion on what might be a better way next time (although it could be done this time with a little work, I believe). Because I don't see a good place to put this comment in context, I'm deleting almost all of the quoted material and then top posting.
I avoid /home as much as I possibly (or at least reasonably) can. I did it for different reasons than the reason I'm going to suggest it now, so I won't go into those, at least for now (well, ok, basically, I got frustrated once when I did something that I thought was innocent and wiped out all my "real user data" (that is things like my documents, code, photos, etc.) when I did something dumb and wiped out home. I would suggest moving (or renaming) all of your "real user data" (for Gene that would presumably include CNC instructions for various things he makes on his machinery) -- put all of that in a new top level directory (mine, on different computers are variations of /<username>nn). Let the system use /home/<username> for whatever it wants, and don't worry about it if it gets lost. Doing what I describe might require some gymnastics with respect to keeping things like mail out of /home, but I did that. And various databases and backups seem to get created in /home/<username>, but it seems to be stuff that can be recreated and maybe is recreated automatically under some circumstances if it disappears. For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has mounted under /home to some new top level mountpoint. (Although he probably has some scripts or similar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/<username> that would need to be modifed. FWIW On Thursday, June 09, 2022 06:04:08 AM gene heskett wrote: ---< deleted >---
