On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 06:45:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:42:43PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You'll have to unmount it, which generally means you will have to reboot > > in single-user mode, or from rescue media, whichever is easier. > > If you log in as root in a Linux console before the graphical > thing gets started, you might get a stab at it, too. No reason > for /home to be in use if no user has a session running
Depends on the system. If you've got user crontabs that run @reboot (or their systemd equivalents, if such a thing exists), those might try to use files in $HOME. If you're running a mail transfer agent that receives email, it might attempt deliveries, which would involve looking for ~/.forward or similar files, and deliveries could be done to the home directory (but not by default on Debian). But yeah, for *most* users, what you said is probably accurate.
