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Can't symlink to /home on mac lion
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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1312590" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>There's no use for /home. OS X, like various other Unix versions, has a unique location for the user. In Linux it's at /home/user, in one of the BSDs (maybe multiple), I believe it is at /usr/home/user and in OS X it's at /Users (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory#Default_Home_Directory_per_Operating_System" target="_blank">here</a> for more info). This is why it is good practices to use the shorthand "~" or the environment variable $HOME since this will transfer across OSes. Enough of the little lecture though. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>If you are logged in as root, you have full access to the filesystem (I want to caution you about using the root account though since you can inadvertently destroy quite a bit of data with ease). If you're getting the "operation not permitted" error, you don't have proper permissions (which makes me think you don't actually have root privileges). Why not just use sudo?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1312590, member: 71075"] There's no use for /home. OS X, like various other Unix versions, has a unique location for the user. In Linux it's at /home/user, in one of the BSDs (maybe multiple), I believe it is at /usr/home/user and in OS X it's at /Users (see [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_directory#Default_Home_Directory_per_Operating_System"]here[/URL] for more info). This is why it is good practices to use the shorthand "~" or the environment variable $HOME since this will transfer across OSes. Enough of the little lecture though. ;) If you are logged in as root, you have full access to the filesystem (I want to caution you about using the root account though since you can inadvertently destroy quite a bit of data with ease). If you're getting the "operation not permitted" error, you don't have proper permissions (which makes me think you don't actually have root privileges). Why not just use sudo? [/QUOTE]
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