I have previously existing home directories under /u01/home. I did this because upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 caused me trouble and I want to avoid having to recreate my home directory. So I copied the whole system into /u01 before doing a fresh Fedora 8 install. I do not have a separate home-only partition.
SELinux prevents me from making a symbolic link like this:
/home--> /u01/home or like this
/home/chris--> /u01/home/chris.
If I setup a dummy user with home at /home/chris, then edit /etc/passwd to change the home to /u01/home/chris... that doesn't work either.
nor if I create a new user like so:
useradd -d /u01/home/pete pete
Is there something magic about the string '/home' ? that keeps me from creating home directories anywhere else?
I'd really love to keep from smashing /home on every OS reload.
For now I have SELinux in Permissive mode so I can at least use the system.