Claus Guttesen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I read the zfs getting started guided at
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/intro/;jsessionid=A64DABB3DF86B8FDBF8A3E281C30B8B2.
> 
> I created zpool disk1 and created disk1/home and assigned /export/home
> to disk1/home as mountpoint. Then I create a user with 'zfs create
> disk1/home/username' and the partition is mounted beneath disk1/home
> as it should.
> 
> When I add the user via smc I get the message:
> 
> The attempt to modify the Home Directory /export/home/username for
> User username failed because ...: Directory path already exists'.
> 
> So in order to remedy this I create the user first, manually move the
> directory create to /export/home.ufs and then creates the
> zfs-partition. But it seems that this is not the optimal way when you
> have to deal with 100 or more users. Fortunately I only have less than
> 10 accounts to handle but this method is somewhat cumbersome.

I wouldn't say that smc is suitable when creating more than an hand full 
of accounts anyway.

Consider using useradd(1M) instead.

-- 
Darren J Moffat
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