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Possible to relocate home folders to another volume?
I am currently running flex raid with two volumes. I would like to relocate the home folders to the other volume. I know that if I use the Destroy function on the volume with the home folder, it will ...
Well the primary (only?) way I was planning to leverage the home folders was for maintaining separate Time Machine sparsebundles. From what I’ve read in the SW manual that feature’s only possible by using the home folder?
Worst case at this point think I can delete the user accounts & re-create them on the other volume later. I was more concerned about options down the road when that might not be so good of an option. :)
Worst case at this point think I can delete the user accounts & re-create them on the other volume later. I was more concerned about options down the road when that might not be so good of an option. :)
While home folders are the normal way to have separate Time Machine backups for users, I believe it is possible to create them on any Samba share. (See How-use-time-machine-backup-your-mac-windows-shared-folder.) I'm not a Mac user, so have not tried this.
Deleting and re-creating user accounts will not change where the user folders are located. They are always located on the primary volume -- you have no control over that.
I think I now understand that what you want is not just to move the home folders, but to spread them over the two volumes. There is no way built into the OS to do that. And since they are BTRFS sub-volumes, not just folders, going in via SSH and replacing some with a hard link to a folder on another volume or changing their mount point will not look the same to the OS, so likely won't work properly. The only way you are going to spread users' shares for Time Machine over more than one volume is to use standard shares you create yourself, not the built-in home folders.
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