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FreeBSD setups still use both /home and /usr/home
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Description

FreeBSD renamed /usr/home to /home with FreeBSD 14, but only for new installations. We still have servers using /usr/home.

When /usr/home are still used, we see errors in Salt like:

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          ID: arcology/home/dereckson
    Function: zfs.filesystem_present                                                                                   
      Result: False          
     Comment: cannot create 'arcology/home/dereckson': parent does not exist
     Started: 20:50:09.902645
    Duration: 85.479 ms                                                                                                
     Changes:

We need to unmount all home directories, create arcology/home, change mountpoint of each home directories as arcology/home/user, remount, remove arcology/usr/home

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dereckson triaged this task as High priority.Mon, Dec 1, 20:53
dereckson created this task.