The Home Directory
The home directory is the portion of a file system allocated to a user for storing private files. The amount of space you allocate for home directories depends on the kinds of files the user creates and the type of work performed. An entire file system is usually allocated specifically for home directories, and the users all share this space. The system administrator needs to monitor user home directories so that one user does not use more than his fair share of space. Disk quotas are used to control the amount of disk space a user can occupy. (These are discussed in Chapter 14, “Managing File Systems.”)
A home directory can be located either on the user’s local system or on a remote file server. Although any directory name ...
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