[Casper] User home directory on third Volume

[Ernst, Craig S.]

I'll be at WWDC. I'm sure we can meet at the CUG on Tuesday night. It's quite amazing to see how different people's environments really are.

We don't save any user home directories, at least in our labs and classrooms. They get wiped each night so they get updated user profiles if we re-imaged or pushed out new software that has anything for Fill User Templates to pick up. All of their "STUFF" is saved on a network share so it's backed up.

Craig Ernst
Systems Management and Configuration
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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Learning and Technology Services
105 Garfield Ave
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: (715) 836-3639
Fax: (715) 836-6001
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ernstcs at uwec.edu
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Subject: [Casper] User home directory on third Volume

We are running with 3 partitions on hard drive

Restore –hidden to user
MacOS- all applications
Data -User Home directory and scratch

Two weeks ago user changed names of two drives they can see. On restart it created a new empty user home directory on the MacOS partition for the user. We just reimaged.

Today again another user-changed names of drives they can see and on restart the computer would not restart. Then I got second call it did start up as user BUT the users items were gone. By the time I got to computer one of techs had reimaged. On questioning tech when they booted with restore drive and changed names back system would not come up right. And just backed up user files and reimaged whole drive.

It has been very helpful when we need to reimage MacOS drive and not have to worry about users home directory. But now I am not so sure if a name change will cause such trouble.

Anyone have best practice for this.

Anyone going to WWDC?

Ricky
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