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I am setting up Amahi for a client. I noticed that among the Amahi shares that come up there is a user share. (For example, if a create a user called "Bob" there is a Bob directory among the shares.) This folder links to the home folder of that user in Fedora (or in Ubuntu I would assume.)

Here is the problem: If one installs the OS and Amahi on a primary hard drive and then one uses a larger separate storage drive for shares, user shares will fill up space quickly on the OS drive.

Possible solution?: Create a share called "Users" at /var/hda/files/Users. Within that share, create a share for the specified user (e.g. Bob). Create a link that mounts the /home/Bob directory at /var/hda/files/Users/Bob location.

Questions:
-How do I do the link above? (I think I could do it but it would be great to hear from someone else just in case I forgot a step.)
-Can Amahi be adapted to offer this option? (For example: adding "Location of Home Share" under each users information and settings on the Amahi Dashboard under "Users")
-Is there a script that could be created in the meantime that could simplify this process?

There are several ways to handle this one. New users are linux users and that is why there is a directory for each in /home.

What you could do is make a share for each user and you indicated, then copy all contents of the /home/user folder to it. One complete, remove the /home/user folder and replace it with a symbolic link to the new location.

You could also change the location of the home folder using the linux command: http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/bl ... sermod.htm

You could create a script to move a group of folders, but having it do it automatically would be a bit more complicated. For Amahi to do it by default, it would need to be coded in the platform. This would be a feature request that we can consider for Amahi 7. Recommend you file a feature request in the bug tracker at http://bugs.amahi.org.

This is a good idea and is doable. Something hopefully we can get into the initial release of Amahi 7.