Can't log in after changing home directory

Question

I logged in as root in the console and ran this : usermod -d /mirror florencia

The folder mirror is located in /mirror

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '15 at 18:16

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Log in as root and change it back to what it was before, by running usermod -d /home/florencia florencia.

I don't know what you were trying to do exactly, but you should generally not change your home directory like that.

answered Mar 11 '15 at 18:16

dobey

Thank you, it worked. But what im tryng to do is share /mirror as a home directory in a cluster. Im newbie. – florencia Mar 11 '15 at 18:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '23 at 03:42

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If everything is done correctly and you loop on login page without accessing you might just need to copy your .bashrc to your new home dir

answered Oct 08 '23 at 03:42

Glottis4

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '15 at 17:29

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE MAKING CHANGES!

here is how you want to move a "/home" directory to another drive or location.

now here is where we start doing things.

cd /
sudo mkdir mnt/
sudo mount /dev/sdXX /mnt

note: replace /dev/sdXX with the specific partition or folder destination. example: /dev/sdc1 or /home/backup

now we are going to copy the contents of things.

sudo rsync -aux /home /mnt

unmount the old partition or location

sudo umount /home

delete the old /home

rm -rf /home

get device UUID for fstab

sudo blkid

open fstab and edit

sudo nano /etc/fstab
UUID=copieduuidnumber    /home    ext4    defaults    0   2

note: if you are using a different filesystem then change ext4 to whatever you are using. example: ext3 or ntfs

reboot and see if things are good

sudo reboot

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